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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.
Apr 16, 2024 · Mrs. Henry Wood was an English novelist who wrote the sensational and extremely popular East Lynne (1861), a melodramatic and moralizing tale of the fall of virtue. Translated into many languages, it was dramatized with great success, and its plot has been frequently imitated in popular fiction.
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East Lynne is a sensation novel written in the Victorian era. It is also my first read of Ellen Wood. Sensation novels were very a popular genre in the Victorian era, and East Lynne was a best seller along with Wilkie Collin’s The Woman in White and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret.
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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.
Apr 5, 2006 · East Lynne had changed owners, and now it was the property of Mr. Carlyle. He had bought it as it stood, furniture and all; but the transfer had been conducted with secrecy, and was suspected by none, save those engaged in the negotiations.
Nov 13, 2020 · She is known chiefly for her bestselling novel East Lynne, published in 1861 which, together with Collins’ The Woman in White (1860) and Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862), was instrumental in establishing the vogue for sensation fiction during that decade.
Aug 21, 2019 · Published in three volumes in 1861, East Lynne by Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood became one of the best-selling novels of the nineteenth century. Melodramatic and sentimental, it had cross-class appeal, and its fame was bolstered by the numerous stage adaptations made of it: the role of its heroine Isabel Vane becoming (like Nancy in Oliver Twist ) a ...
