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Victorian Passions


Dickens' Secret Lover


Actors from the Channel 4 programme, Dickens' Secret Lover

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A quest to discover the truth of Charles Dickens' thirteen year secret love affair and how he kept it from the public eye.

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Charles Dickens

Dickens' Secrets

By Professor John Bowen

Dickens' life was twice broken by deep divisions that left guilty and shameful secrets to haunt his life and writing. John Bowen, from the 'Dickens' Secret Lover' programme, takes up the story.


Other programmes in the Victorian Passions season:

Queen Victoria's Men
The Victorian Sex Explorer
Upstairs Downstairs Love



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