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East Lynne is an English sensation novel of 1861 by Ellen Wood, writing as Mrs Henry Wood. A Victorian best-seller, it is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot, centring on infidelity and double identities. There have been numerous stage and film adaptations.
Dec 29, 1982 · In 1845 An aristocrat's gives his only daughter ( lady Isabelle) an elaborate coming of age birthday party ( on credit) on their large East Lynne property where important plot characters are intriduced. Based on the bestselling 1861 English novel by Ellen Wood.
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East Lynne’s first real contemporary play revolves around two men—one Black, one white; one straight, one gay; both single fathers of daughters—who, through empathy and humor, form an unlikely...
Notable Works: “East Lynne”. Mrs. Henry Wood (born Jan. 17, 1814, Worcester, Worcestershire, Eng.—died Feb. 10, 1887, London) was an English novelist who wrote the sensational and extremely popular East Lynne (1861), a melodramatic and moralizing tale of the fall of virtue.
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One of the most famous of the 1860s sensation novels, Ellen Wood’s East Lynne (1861), can be read as resisting – at least in part – the very obsession with sensational crime and invocations of nervous shock by which the genre is defined.
East Lynne is a 1931 American pre-Code film version of Ellen Wood 's eponymous 1861 novel, which was adapted by Tom Barry and Bradley King and directed by Frank Lloyd.
In the famously improbable storyline of Ellen Wood’s East Lynne (1860–1), the disgraced protagonist Lady Isabel returns to the home she has abandoned, disguised as the dowdy governess Madame Vine.
