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Wood, Ellen (1814 - 1887)

Short name Wood, Ellen
VIAF http://viaf.org/viaf/14898332/
First name Ellen
Birth name Wood
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Alternative name Ellen Price Wood — Mrs Henry Wood
Date of birth 1814
Date of death 1887
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Sex Female
Place of birth Worcester
Place of death London
Lived in England
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Wood, Ellen was ...
related to Rosa Nouchette Carey
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Place(s) of Residence England
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receptions circulations
Danesbury House (1860) 2 0
*Hartledon House (1861~) 1 0
East Lynne (1861) 9 0
A Life's Secret (1862) 2 0
The Channings (1862) 6 0
Mrs. Halliburton's troubles (1862) 6 0
Martin Ware's Temptation (1863) 1 0
Verner's pride (1863) 3 0
The foggy night at Offord (1863) 3 0
The shadow of Ashlydyat (1863) 1 0
*Het verdwenen codicil (The lost codicil) (1863) 3 0
Oswald Cray (1864) 5 0
Trevlyn Hold (1864) 6 0
Lord Oakburn's daughters (1864) 4 1
Mildred Arkell (1865) 3 0
Elster's folly (1866) 3 1
St. Martin's Eve (1866) 2 0
Lady Adelaide's oath (1867) 3 0
The ghost of the hollow (1867) 1 0
Orville College (1867) 2 0
Anne Hereford (1868) 2 0
The Red Court Farm (1868) 5 0
A Hunt by Moonlight (1868) 1 0
Roland Yorke (1869) 2 0
Bessy Rane (1870) 6 0
George Canterbury's Will (1870) 3 0
Dene Hollow (1871) 6 0
*Across the stream (1872) 1 0
Within the maze (1872) 2 0
The Master of Greylands (1873) 4 1
The master of Greylands. (1873) 0 0
The Johnny Ludlow Stories (1874) 1 0
Parkwater, or; Told in the twilight (1875) 1 0
Edina (1876) 4 0
Adam Grainger (1876) 4 0
Pomeroy Abbey (1878) 3 0
*A fatal step (1880) 1 0
Court Netherleigh (1881) 3 0
A tale of sin and other tales (1881) 1 0
Helen Whitney's Wedding & Other Tales (1885) 2 0
The Mystery of Jessy Page & Other Stories 1 0
*The sisters on Cliff Farm (Søstrene paa Klippegaarden) 1 0
*Disappeared without a trace (Sporløst forsvunden) 1 0
*Door vuur en water (Through fire and water) 2 0
*Helena Vernon 2 0
*De Sonsbergen, eene familiegeschiedenis (De Sonsbergen, a family history) 2 0
*In nacht en storm (In night and tempest) 2 0
*Gescheiden en hereenigd (Seperated and reunited) 2 0
The Story of Dorothy Grape; Lady Jenkins; The angels' music 2 0
*De bouwknecht van Westhoeve (The construction servant of Westhoeve) 2 0
*Cora 2 0
*Op krediet (On credit) 2 0
*In het doolhof (In the maze) 3 0

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*Mention in article in De Gids Pieter Nicolaas Muller 1869 -
*Mention in Art. in De Gids Johan Hermann Christian Heyse 1879 -
*Art. in Lelie- en Rozeknoppen Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1887 comments on person
Reginald Easton, portrait of Ellen Wood, frontispiece of Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood, 1894 None is portrait of

- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "Her second novel East Lynne was higly succesful, selling over 2.5 million copies by 1900". "Most of her works are novels of sensation underscored by a rigid Victorian morality".
- Cambr, Nat Biogr. - De Vries, Een stad vol lezers, 2011