7/8/2023 0 Comments East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood![]() ![]() Critic Sally Mitchell estimates that some version was seen by audiences in either England or North America every week for over forty years. Some 500,000 copies are said to have been sold by the end of the nineteenth century and it has been adapted for the stage and film innumerable times. Its sensationalism may well have appealed to the bored Victorian middle-class woman but it was also widely read and enjoyed by men. However, it is without a doubt a highly engaging melodramatic novel which, although panned by some contemporary critics, was spectacularly successful in its day. ![]() East Lynne is a little outside the scope of the Readership and Literary Cultures remit as it was first published in 1861 having previously been serialised in the New Monthly Magazine. ![]()
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