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Ellen Price (17 January 1814 – 10 February 1887) was an English novelist better known as Mrs. Henry Wood. She is best remembered for her 1861 novel East Lynne. Many of her books sold well internationally and were widely read in the United States. In her time, she surpassed Charles Dickens in fame in Australia.




Life


Ellen Price was born in Worcester, on 17 January 1814. In 1836 she married Henry Wood, who worked in the banking and shipping trade in Dauphiné in the South of France, where they lived for 20 years. On the failure of Wood's business, the family (including four children) returned to England and settled in Upper Norwood near London, where Ellen Wood turned to writing. This supported the family. Henry Wood died in 1866. She wrote over 30 novels, many of which (especially East Lynne) enjoyed remarkable popularity. Among the best known are Danesbury House, Oswald Cray, Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles, The Channings, Lord Oakburn's Daughters and The Shadow of Ashlydyat. Her writing tone would be described as "conservative and Christian," occasionally expressing religious rhetoric.
In 1867, Wood purchased the English magazine Argosy, which had been founded by Alexander Strahan in 1865. She wrote much of the magazine herself, but other contributors included Hesba Stretton, Julia Kavanagh, Christina Rossetti, Sarah Doudney and Rosa Nouchette Carey. Wood continued as its editor until her death in 1887, when her son Charles Wood took over.
Wood's works were translated into many languages, including French and Russian. Leo Tolstoy, in a 9 March 1872 letter to his older brother Sergei, noted that he was "reading Mrs. Wood's wonderful novel In the Maze".
Wood wrote several works of supernatural fiction, including "The Ghost" (1867) and the oft-anthologized "Reality or Delusion?" (1868).
She died of bronchitis.




Works



These are the first published UK editions as catalogued by the British Library, with supplementary information from a specialist booksellers' catalogue.




References






Further reading


Malcolm Elwin. Victorian Wallflowers, Jonathan Cape, 1934. (chapter 7)
Jennifer Phegley (2005), "Domesticating the Sensation Novelist: Ellen Price Wood as Author and Editor of the 'Argosy Magazine'," Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 2, pp. 180–198
Thomas Seecombe (1900), "Wood, Ellen (1814–1887)," Dictionary of National Biography: Williamson-Worden, Vol. LXII, pp. 355–357
Adeline Sergeant (1897), "Mrs. Henry Wood". In: Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign, London: Hurst & Blackett, pp. 174–192
Charles W. Wood (1887), "Mrs. Henry Wood. In Memorian," The Argosy, Vol. XLIII, pp. 251, 334 and 442




External links



Media related to Ellen Wood (author) at Wikimedia Commons
Works by or about Ellen Wood at Wikisource
Works by Mrs. Henry Wood at Project Gutenberg
Works by Mrs. Henry Wood at Hathi Trust
Works by or about Ellen Wood at the Internet Archive
Works by Ellen Wood at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Mrs. Henry Wood website
Mrs. Henry Wood at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Mrs Henry Wood Bibliography Of Contributions To Periodicals
Mrs. Henry Wood at Library of Congress, with 119 library catalogue records

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