Henry Wood

Ellen Price married Henry Wood (banker, shipping owner, and member of the British consular service) at Whittington, a suburb of Worcester.

EW 's husband, Henry Wood , died, with, she wrote, shocking unexpectedness.

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...

Throughout the 1850s EW contributed anonymous journalistic sketches and short stories to Bentley's Miscellany and the New Monthly Magazine. The latter printed nearly sixty of her stories between 1851 and 1856. In later stories...

In the year that EW 's husband, Henry , is generally said to have died, one of her novels, Elster's Folly, appeared under the usual form of her name, heralded by a brief, intense...

At some point in the early 1850s, some unspecified event prompted Henry Wood to withdraw from business. It may be that he lost his job, or went bankrupt: it sounds as if the family were...