Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Highly prolific and successful popular novelist (especially sensation fiction) and short fiction writer, as well as poet and editor. Alternative signatures: “Mrs Henry Wood.” Married Henry Wood on 17 March 1836. Lived in France from 1836-1856. In 1867 became editor and proprietor of The Argosy, and also one of its major contributors. Novels include the best-seller East Lynne (1861). Biographical information: ODNB, Orlando. (JS, AC)