William Henry Wills (journalist)

William Henry Wills in about 1862

William Henry Wills JP (13 January 1810 – 1 September 1880) was a British journalist, playwright, a newspaper editor and a close friend and confidant of the author Charles Dickens, who entrusted Wills with the task of forwarding his letters to his mistress Ellen Ternan.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference ODNB was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ William Henry Wills in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 62
  3. ^ Nisbet, Ada Dickens and Ellen Ternan University of California Press (1952), University of Cambridge Press (1953)
  4. ^ 'Dickens Onstage: Up Into the Clouds Together', New York Public Library Online Exhibition Archive

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