In this “We’re Both Sick” re-air from January 2020, Stacie has the surprisingly trashy tale of Charles Dickens’s public abandonment of his wife of 22 years and the secret, 13-year-long affair that he conducted with a young actress throughout the rest of his life. Turns out that so-called “Great Men” only hold up if their followers are willing to keep their secrets.

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The Invisible Woman: The Story of Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan, by Claire Tomalin

The film version of The Invisible Woman, starring Felicity Jones and Ralph Fiennes