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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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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.
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.
Mrs. Henry Wood, Elisabeth Jay. When the aristocratic Lady Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer, more is at stake than moral retribution.
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Feb 28, 2000 · East Lynne is the archetypal sensation novel, filled with disaster, guilt and repentance. It also documents the growing protest against the rigid roles prescribed for Victorian women. Among...
