Mrs Henry Wood: 69 books

East Lynne is an English sensation novel of 1861 by Ellen 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. Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined...

A series of vignettes about life in the Victorian times in Great Britain. Excerpt from Fifth Series: ““Let us go and give her a turn,” cried the Squire. Tod laughed. “What, all of us?” said he. “To be sure. All of us. Why not? We’ll start to-morrow.” “Oh dear!” exclaimed Mrs. Todhetley,...

Excerpt: "It was Henry Arkell. For the years have gone on, and the lovely boy of ten or eleven, has grown into this handsome youth. Other people and other things have grown with him. Now then What be you doing here You just please to take yourself Off, young gentleman.' He quitted the railings in...

A married aristocratic woman succumbs to desire in this nineteenth-century English novel.   Lady Isabel Vane married for all the wrong reasons—only to one day find her lawyer husband neglecting her for another woman. Seething with jealousy, she leaves behind her husband and their child for the...

I am going to tell you a story of real life—one of those histories that in point of fact are common enough; but, hidden within Themselves as They generally are, are thought to be so rare, and, if proclaimed to The world in all Their strange details, are looked upon as a romance, not reality. Some of...

ASHLEIGH. Had'st thou lived in days of old, O, what wonders had been told Of thy lively countenance, And thy humid eyes that dance In the midst of their own brightness, In the very fane of lightness; Over which thine eyebrows, leaning, Picture out each lovely meaning; In a dainty bend they lie Like the...

On a certain portion of the English coast, lying sufficiently convenient to that of France to have given rise to whispers of smuggling in the days gone by, there is a bleak plateau of land, rising high above the sea. It is a venturesome feat to walk close to its edge and gaze down the perpendicular...

LOSING LENA. We lived chiefly at Dyke Manor. A fine old place, so close upon the borders of Warwickshire and Worcestershire, that many people did not know which of the two counties it was really in. The house was in Warwickshire, but some of the land was in Worcestershire. The Squire had, however, another...

A series of vignettes about life in the Victorian times in Great Britain. Excerpt from Second Series: "Many a true tale has been told of the disappearance of money in passing through the post. Sometimes the loss is never cleared up, but remains a mystery to the end. One of these losses happened...

Excerpt On a wide extent of country, surrounded on all sides as far as the eye could reach, with its forests, its hills and valleys, its Sparkling streams, sat many a noble mansion of ancient or modern architecture, and of more or less note in the county. Farm homesteads might be seen, surrounded...

A series of vignettes about life in the Victorian times in Great Britain. Excerpt from Fourth Series: “Look here, Johnny Ludlow,” said Darbyshire to me—Darbyshire being, as you may chance to remember, our doctor at Timberdale—“you seem good at telling of unaccountable disappearances: why...

Charles Strange is a very likeable fellow who is morally upright and honest. This book is less about Charles and more about his friends, their problems and difficulties. Charles is the one who listens, advises and helps finds solutions. He narrates most of the story. (Amazon)

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