Mrs. Henry Wood

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, centering on infidelity and double identities. There have been numerous stage and film adaptations. Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined young woman, leaves her hard-working lawyer-husband, Carlyle, and her infant children to elope with an aristocratic suitor, Francis Levison, after wrongfully...

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Johnny Ludlow, First Series" by Henry Mrs. Wood. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Oswald Cray is so often praised for his strong values and nobility, that it is easy for him to forget that he still has flaws. After a nosy servant, who meddles in others' belongings, finds a letter he deems to be suspicious, he presents false charges against Dr. Davenal, a kind and patient man who previously held a sterling reputation. Unaware that it was all a misunderstanding, Cray places too much trust in his own suspicions and breaks off his...

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series" by Henry Mrs. Wood. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Johnny Ludlow, Second Series' is a Victorian romance novel by Henry Mrs. Wood. Written in first person, the novel revolves around a man named Johnny Ludlow who lived with the Todhetleys. Mrs. Todhetley, the Squire's present wife, was his stepmother, with his father having married her after Johnny's own mother's death. After his father's death-which took place speedily-she became the second wife of Squire Todhetley, and the stepmother of his only son...

The human response to evil is naturally to return evil. This novel shows that unless a spirit of goodness is instilled from very young it is often difficult if not impossible to cultivate one of kindness and generosity. Stealing, lying, cruel tactics are employed to crush those who are weak and helpless. The rich oppress. The poor are repressed. When a dying man is misled to change his will in favor of a son in law the estate ends up in the hands...

A series of vignettes about life in the Victorian times in Great Britain. Excerpt from Third Series: "Our old grey church at Church Dykely stood in a solitary spot. Servant maids (two of ours once, Hannah and Molly), and silly village girls went there sometimes to watch for the "shadows" on St. Mark's Eve, and owls had a habit of darting out of the belfry at night. Within view of the church, though at some distance from it, stood the lonely, red-brick,...

The village of Ashleigh is situated in one of the most lovely and romantic of the English counties; where mountains, valleys, woods and forest trees appear to vie with each other in stately magnificence. The village is literally embosomed amongst the trees. Lofty elms, majestic oaks, and wide-spreading beech trees grow in and around it. On one side, as far as the eye can reach, are mountains covered with verdure, with all their varied and lovely tints...

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, dismay in her mild tones. "Children and all?" "Children and all; and take Hannah to see to them," said the Squire. "You don't count, Joe: you will be off elsewhere."...

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Channings" (A Story) by Henry Mrs. Wood. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.