Ellen Wood
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Standard Name: Wood, Ellen
Birth Name: Ellen Price
Married Name: Mrs Henry Wood
Pseudonym: Johnny Ludlow
Pseudonym: Ensign Thomas Pepper
In a writing career spanning most of the second half of the nineteenth century, Johnny Ludlow tales involving a character of that name, that were published over a twenty-year period. While much of her fiction takes the form of moralistic domestic dramas,
could also be fascinated by the grotesque, and many of her works have sensational and supernatural themes. Her reputation today rests almost exclusively on the phenomenally popular East Lynne, 1861, possibly the best seller among novels of the Victorian period and the only one of her works that has remained generally available.
produced a prodigious body of work (often writing two triple-deckers per year), including sketches, novels, and a series of interconnected Timeline
Texts
Wood, Ellen. A Life’s Secret. Charles W. Wood, 1867, 2 vols.
Palmer, T. A., and Ellen Wood. “Appendix J: Extracts from T. A. Palmers adaptation of East LynneEast Lynne, edited by Andrew Maunder and Andrew Maunder, Broadview, 2000, pp. 741-76.
Wood, Ellen. Ashley, and Other Stories. R. Bentley and Sons, 1897.
Wood, Ellen. Danesbury House. Scottish Temperance League, 1860.
Wood, Ellen. East Lynne. R. Bentley, 1861, 3 vols.
Wood, Ellen, and Sally Mitchell. East Lynne. Rutgers University Press, 1984.
Wood, Ellen. Edina. R. Bentley, 1876, 3 vols.
Wood, Ellen. Edina. R. Bentley and Son, 1889.
Wood, Ellen. Elster’s Folly. Tinsley Brothers, 1866, 3 vols.
Wood, Ellen. “Introduction”. East Lynne, edited by Andrew Maunder, Broadview, 2000, pp. 9-38.
Wood, Ellen. Johnny Ludlow. R. Bentley, 1874, 3 vols.
Wood, Ellen. Johnny Ludlow, Second Series. R. Bentley and Son, 1889.
Wood, Ellen. Lady Grace, and Other Stories. R. Bentley and Son, 1887, 3 vols.
Wood, Ellen. Mildred Arkell. Tinsley, 1865, 3 vols.
Wood, Ellen. Mrs. Halliburton’s Troubles. R. Bentley, 1862, 3 vols.
Wood, Ellen. Roland Yorke. R. Bentley, 1869, 3 vols.
Wood, Ellen. “Seven Years in the Wedded Life of a Roman Catholic”. The New Monthly Magazine, Vol.
91
, pp. 245-55. Wood, Ellen. St. Martin’s Eve. Tinsley, 1866, 3 vols.
Craig, Isa et al., editors. The Argosy. R. Bentley and Son.
Wood, Ellen. The Channings. Ward, Lock.
Wood, Ellen. The Channings. R. Bentley, 1862, 3 vols.
Wood, Ellen. The Shadow of Ashlydyat. R. Bentley, 1863, 3 vols.
Wood, Ellen. Verner’s Pride. B. Tauchnitz, 1863, 3 vols.