One of the most famous Victorian best-sellers by Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood, published in 1860-1. Lady Isobel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined young woman, leaves her lawyer husband and their children to elope with an aristocratic suitor. After he deserts her and she bears their illegitimate child, Lady Isobel disguises herself and takes the position of governess in the household of her husband and his new wife. East Lynne is the archetypal sensation novel filled with disaster, guilt and secrecy
Frances Sheridan's Eugenia and Adelaide is an astonishing first novel of parental tyranny, infidelit...
A facsimile volume of Victorian recollections, magazine articles and interviews which considers the ...
An overview of the life and career of Victorian best-seller, Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood, and a discussio...
Ellen (Mrs. Henry) Wood (1814–87) was one of the bestselling British novelists of the nineteenth cen...
Poster for East Lynne ; Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined young woman, leaves her hard-wo...
Ellen Wood?s East Lynne, a popular sensation fiction, began because of its original and insatiable B...
The chapter discusses Ellen Wood's 1861 bestseller and sensational morality tale and its engagement ...
Deborah Wynne has noted that from 1850 to 1860 there was a change in middle-class reading tastes. Sh...
The simultaneous rise of Victorian women’s movement and the dominance of female authorship and reade...
This book considers the ways in which women writers used the powerful positions of author and editor...
The third novel in Fay Weldon's 'Love and Inheritance' trilogy, following the lives and loves of an ...
Brought up in the stately grandeur of Burghley House as heir to the earldom of Exeter, Henry Cecil s...
Young Cherry Wilkinson, the daughter of a farmer, has read one too many Gothic novels. And when she ...
Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), the most renowned woman author of her time, in her old age wrote Helen ...
2009 was the bicentenary of the birth of the English writer, translator, critic and amateur artist E...
Frances Sheridan's Eugenia and Adelaide is an astonishing first novel of parental tyranny, infidelit...
A facsimile volume of Victorian recollections, magazine articles and interviews which considers the ...
An overview of the life and career of Victorian best-seller, Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood, and a discussio...
Ellen (Mrs. Henry) Wood (1814–87) was one of the bestselling British novelists of the nineteenth cen...
Poster for East Lynne ; Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined young woman, leaves her hard-wo...
Ellen Wood?s East Lynne, a popular sensation fiction, began because of its original and insatiable B...
The chapter discusses Ellen Wood's 1861 bestseller and sensational morality tale and its engagement ...
Deborah Wynne has noted that from 1850 to 1860 there was a change in middle-class reading tastes. Sh...
The simultaneous rise of Victorian women’s movement and the dominance of female authorship and reade...
This book considers the ways in which women writers used the powerful positions of author and editor...
The third novel in Fay Weldon's 'Love and Inheritance' trilogy, following the lives and loves of an ...
Brought up in the stately grandeur of Burghley House as heir to the earldom of Exeter, Henry Cecil s...
Young Cherry Wilkinson, the daughter of a farmer, has read one too many Gothic novels. And when she ...
Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), the most renowned woman author of her time, in her old age wrote Helen ...
2009 was the bicentenary of the birth of the English writer, translator, critic and amateur artist E...
Frances Sheridan's Eugenia and Adelaide is an astonishing first novel of parental tyranny, infidelit...
A facsimile volume of Victorian recollections, magazine articles and interviews which considers the ...
An overview of the life and career of Victorian best-seller, Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood, and a discussio...