East Lynne
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East Lynne, or, The Earl's Daughter is an 1861 English sensation novel by Ellen Wood, writing as Mrs. Henry Wood. A Victorian-era bestseller, it is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible
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Newspaper clipping of 1913 adaptation
Sensation novel
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The sensation novel, also sensation fiction, was a literary genre of fiction that achieved its peak popularity in Great Britain from the mid-1850s to the 1890s, centring on taboo material that was sho
East Lynne
…East Lynne, or, The Earl's Daughter is an 1861 English sensation novel by Ellen Wood, writing as Mrs. Henry Wood. A Victorian-era bestseller, it is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot centring on…
Captioned "The Novelist who invented Sensation", caricature of Wilkie Collins in Vanity Fair, 3 February 1872