Ellen Wood, East Lynne

Calinda Shely (Northern Arizona University)

Ed. by Grace Moore, University of Otago
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.07: English Writing and Culture of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901.
Vol. editors: Gillian Fenwick (University of Toronto), Jessica Gossling (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1861

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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East Lynne: A Story of Modern Life

was the periodical writer Ellen Wood’s second novel. It was first serialized in

Colburn’s New Monthly Magazine

from January 1860 to September 1861. Bentley and Son published the work as a triple-decker novel in autumn of 1861, and it went through four editions in six months. The novel was a tremendous success, both in Great Britain and internationally; by the turn of the twentieth century, it had sold more than a million copies (Liggins and Maunder 2008: p. 150) and was translated into most European languages as well as into Hindi and Gujarati (Tromp 2011: 257). Stage adaptations were also immensely popular all over the world, though Wood herself received no renumeration from them (Tromp 2011: p. 262).

Wood’s motivations for writing East Lynne were

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Citation: Shely, Calinda. "East Lynne". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 October 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5457, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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