Mrs. Ellen Wood (née Price) (1814-1887), was an English novelist, better known as "Mrs. Henry Wood". She was born at Worcester. She wrote over 30 novels, many of which enjoyed remarkable popularity. Among the best known of her stories are Danesbury House (1860), East Lynne (1861), The Channings (1862), Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles (1862), The Shadow of Ashlydyat (1863), Verner's Pride (1863), Oswald Cray (1864) and Lord Oakburn's Daughters (1864). For many years, she worked as the proprietor and editor of the Argosy. Her most popular novel, East Lynne was a Victorian bestseller and is still sometimes performed as a drama. It is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot, centering on double identity and bigamy. Other works include: Elster's Folly (1866), Johnny Ludlow (1868-89), Anne Hereford (1868), Bessy Rane (1870) Our Children (1876) and Lady Adelaide (1879).

Verner's Pride

Wood, Henry, Mrs.

Literature & Fiction

Dodo Pr

Anne Hereford

The novel's setting and viewpoint have led to natural comparisons with Jane Eyre, but it is Jane Eyre shot through with scandal and sensation -- the kind of book that might have appealed to the first Mrs. Rochester. Despite its antiquated wills, inheritances, shotguns, and other paraphernalia, the novel is almost entirely accessible by modern readers -- with perhaps one exception. The reader should keep in mind that the phrase "make love to" denoted harmless flirting or praise in Victorian parlance. Thus when Selina urges, "Anne, come forward, and let Mr. Heneage make love to you. It is a pastime he favors," nothing sinister is implied. -- Martha Bayless

Literary

Alan Rodgers Books

Old Mr. Verner had been a modest country gentleman, until one morning when he awoke to the news that valuable mines had been discovered on his land. The mines brought him in gold, and in his later years he purchased this estate, pulled down the house upon it, and built this solid mansion, calling it "Verner's Pride."As idyllic as the mansion and estate seem, however, trouble seems to stalk those who dwell there. Young Rachel Frost, full of life and beauty, is found drowned in the pond -- and Mrs. Roy is terrified by a ghostly vision. Then the young heir to Verner's Pride finds his life suddenly complicated in a way that runs contrary to his heart -- and which may leave him entangled for life!

Bayless, Martha

Aegypan

. . . .Yet old Matthew held steady. "It was the face of one who has been dead these two years past," he told the rector. "I saw the spirit of Mr. Frederick Massingbird!" Things had never quite returned to normal in Deerham, after the mysterious drowning of Rachel Frost in Willow Pool. Now the young Dan Duff has fallen into seizures, having stared into the moonlit face of a tall, spectral man -- one he knows to be dead. And Robin Frost, who long before gave up waiting by Willow Pool for the ghost of Rachel to appear, has started spending nights again out beneath the open sky -- with a loaded gun cradled in his arms.Troubles beset even Lionel Verner, in line to inherit Verner's Pride through his new marriage. Even as all Deerham trembles at sightings of the dead man, Verner faces financial embarrassment, perhaps even ruin, due to his beautiful new wife's excesses.

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Verner's Pride

Anne Hereford

Verner's Pride

Verner's Pride

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