At his desk in 1858

　　Major works, A Tale of Two Cities ; and Great Expectations soon followed and would prove resounding successes. During this time he was also the publisher and editor of, and a major contributor to, the journals Household Words and All the Year Round .

　　In early September 1860, in a field behind Gads Hill, Dickens made a great bonfire of almost his entire correspondenceonly those letters on business matters were spared. Since Ellen Ternan also destroyed all of his letters to her, the extent of the affair between the two remains speculative. In the 1930s, Thomas Wright recounted that Ternan had unburdened herself with a Canon Benham, and gave currency to rumours they had been lovers. That the two had a son who died in infancy was alleged by Dickens daughter, Kate Perugini, whom Gladys Storey had interviewed before her death in 1929, and published her account in Dickens and Daughter, although no contemporary evidence exists. On his death, Dickens settled an annuity on Ternan which made her a financially independent woman. Claire Tomalins book, The Invisible Woman, argues that Ternan lived with Dickens secretly for the last 13 years of his life. The book was subsequently turned into a play, Little Nell, by Simon Gray.

　　In the same period, Dickens furthered his interest in the paranormal, becoming one of the early members of The Ghost Club.

　　Last years

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