Maria Wood

John Page Wood's father, Sir Matthew Wood , a Liberal Member of Parliament and twice Lord Mayor of London, initially opposed the union because the couple were young and impoverished. The groom's brother was sent...

In the twelve years before her death ECW published ten novels. She began publishing only after her husband 's death, in part to alleviate her financial dependency on her sister , who supplied her with...

Her sister Maria Wood (whose own husband had died twenty years earlier leaving her a very wealthy and childless widow) rescued her from financial disaster by settling a permanent income on her.