East Lynne

Name: East Lynne
Author: Ellen Wood

by Ellen Wood

Melodramatic novel of a woman's downfall and secret return in disguise

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Ellen Wood

Ellen Wood (Mrs Henry Wood) was one of the most popular novelists of the Victorian era, whose East Lynne sold in the millions and made female transgression and suffering a staple of popular fiction. She was a shrewd observer of provincial middle-class life.

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