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Charles Wood
Standard Name: Wood, Charles
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Birth | Ellen Wood | Ellen Price (later EW
) was born at Worcester, the eldest in her family, born (as recent research has revealed) only two months after her parents' wedding. While the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Hesba Stretton | HS
had a close relationship with Charles Wood
, son of the writer Ellen Wood
(better known as Mrs Henry Wood). |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ellen Wood | EW
's husband, Henry Wood
, died, with, she wrote, shocking unexpectedness. EW
wrote of her husband's death as recent on 16 January 1866. The belief that he died that year comes from an article... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ellen Wood | In his biography Charles Wood
indicates that EW
might have regretted her marriage, or regretted at least leaving her family. He wonders: [h]ad she quite realised all the transition meant, would she have found the... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ellen Wood | During her twenty years in France EW
she gave birth to two daughters (one of whom died of scarlet fever), and at least three sons. One of these, Charles
, later became her collaborator on... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ellen Wood | The stage versions of East Lynne have been analysed critically in recent works such as E. Ann Kaplan
's Motherhood and Representation. Like many of the popular novelists of the period, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ellen Wood | According to EW
's son and biographer Charles Wood
, William Harrison Ainsworth
, as proprietor of Bentley's Miscellany and the New Monthly Magazine, had early in her career dissuaded her from writing a... |
| Literary Setting | Ellen Wood | Both The Channings and its successors, Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles and Roland Yorke, were set in Helstonleigh, EW
's fictionalised Worcester; her son and biographer, Charles Wood
, describes the importance of Worcester to... |
| Occupation | Ellen Wood | After 1873, EW
's production slowed somewhat, and her son Charles
gradually assumed control, becoming the magazine's editor and proprietor on her death. Montgomery, Katherine F. “Ladies who Launch: the Argosy Magazine and Ellen Price Woods Perilous Voyages”. Womens Writing, Vol. 21 , No. 4, Nov. 2014, pp. 523-39. 525 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Reception | Ellen Wood | Early responses to EW
's work were often mixed. The English Woman's Journal said that in her work it was not the dramatic power, the poetical insight, the construction or development of these stories, which... |
| Textual Features | Ellen Wood | Charles Wood
states that Mildred Arkell seeks to address the hopelessness that fell upon so many when the ports were opened: Wood, C. W. Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood. Third, R. Bentley and Son, 1895. 45 |
| Textual Features | Ellen Wood | Charles Wood
relates that Richard Bentley
requested a motto for the novel. EW
eventually drew one from from Longfellow
's The Courtship of Miles Standish, feeling that this poem was so applicable to the... |
| Textual Production | Hesba Stretton | Before she wrote this work, HS
conducted research by visiting London's East End slums, accompanied on separate occasions by Charles Wood
and by a policeman. The heroine's home in Angel Court, near Rosemary Lane... |
| Textual Production | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
's success with community plays written on her own helped her to enlist the services of other well-known professional playwrights. Howard Barker
was her first willing victim, contributing The Poor Man's Friend for a... |
| Textual Production | Ellen Wood | Curiously, Charles Wood
, her son and biographer, describes East Lynne as his mother's first novel, although he does mention that she was encouraged to write Danesbury House by a friend, and that she completed... |
Timeline
December 1865: Alexander Strahan launched The Argosy, a...
Writing climate item
December 1865
Alexander Strahan
launched The Argosy, a monthly literary and travel magazine, with Isa Craig
as its first editor, and Charles Reade
's Griffith Gaunt as its lead serial.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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