Ellen Wood

Mrs. Ellen Wood (née Price) (January 17, 1814 – February 10, 1887), was an English novelist, better known as "Mrs. Henry Wood".

Life

She was born at Worcester. She wrote over 30 novels, many of which (especially East Lynne), enjoyed remarkable popularity. Among the best known of her stories are Danesbury House, Oswald Cray, Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles, The Channings, Lord Oakburn's Daughters and The Shadow of Ashlydyat. For many years, she worked as the proprietor and editor of the Argosy.

Works

These are the first published UK edition as catalogued by the British Library:

• Danesbury House (1860)
• East Lynne (1861)
• The Elchester College Boys (1861)
• A Life's Secret (1862)
• Mrs Halliburton's Troubles (1862)
• The Channings 1862
• The Foggy Night at Offord A Christmas gift for the Lancashire Fund 1863
• The shadow of Ashlydyat 1863
• Verner’s Pride 1863
• Lord Oakburn’s Daughters 1864
• Oswald Cray 1864
• Trevlyn Hold; or, Squire Trevlyn’s Heir 1864
• William Allair; or, Running away to Sea 1864
• Mildred Arkell A novel 1865
• Elster’s Folly A novel 1866
• St Martin’s Eve A novel 1866
• Lady Adelaide’s Oath 1867
• Orville College A story 1867
• The Ghost of the Hollow Field 1867
• Anne Hereford A novel 1868 [1]
• Castle Wafer; or, the Plain Gold Ring 1868
• The Red Court Farm A novel 1868
• Roland Yorke A novel 1869
• Bessy Rane A novel 1870
• George Canterbury’s will 1870
• Dene hollow 1871
• Within the Maze A novel 1872
• The Master of Greylands 1873
• Johnny Ludlow 1874
• Bessy Wells 1875
• Told in the Twilight Containing “Parkwater” and nine shorter stories 1875
• Adam Grainger A tale 1876
• Edina 1876
• Les Filles de Lord Oakburn Roman traduit de l’anglaispar L Bochet 1876
• Our Children 1876
• Parkwater With four other tales 1876
• La Gloire des Verner Roman traduit de l’anglaispar L de L’Estrive 1878
• Le Serment de Lady Adelaïde Roman traduit de l’anglaispar Léon Bochet 1878
• Pomeroy Abbey 1878
• Lady Adelaide 1879
• Johnny Ludlow Second series 1880
• A tale of sin and other tales 1881
• Court Netherleigh A novel 1881
• About Ourselves 1883
• Johnny Ludlow Third series 1885
• Lady Grace, and other stories 1887
• The story of Charles Strange 1888
• The Unholy Wish and other stories 1890
• Ashley and other stories 1897

References

In a March 9 1872 letter to his older brother Sergei, Leo Tolstoy noted that he was "reading Mrs. Wood's wonderful novel 'In the Maze.'" (Ref: Complete Works of Tolstoy, PSS, 61:276) Works from the British Library Catalogue

Further reading

• Adeline Sergeant (1897). "Mrs. Henry Wood", in Adeline Sergeant: Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign. London: Hurst & Blackett, 174–192. 

External links

• Works by Mrs. Henry Wood at Project Gutenberg

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.

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