| mrs. henry wood | |
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| English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887) [syn: Wood] |
Mrs. Henry Wood
English novelist who wrote the sensational and extremely popular East Lynne (1861), a melodramatic and moralizing tale of the fall of virtue. Translated into many languages, it was dramatized with great success, and its plot has been frequently imitated in popular fiction.
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