Bibliographic information for this edition of east lynne:
title: east lynne. Alternate title: east lynne by mrs. Henry wood, author of “the channings,” “johnny ludlow,” etc. , etc. Author: wood, henry, mrs. (ellen wood), 1814-1887. Publication statement: london: richard bentley and son [1884]. Location: mcpherson library, university of victoria. Call number:pr5842 w8e3. Monograph description: 483 pages; frontispiece illustration by e. Hughes (artist) and j. Brown (engraver); gift signature on half-title page. Note: east lynne is a “sensation novel” originally serialized in the new monthly under editor william harrison ainsworth, beginning in january 1861. The novel was rejected by two publishers before being accepted by richard bentley. East lynne was popularized as a play, “apparently” first stage in brooklyn on january 26, 1863: “in any given week for more than forty years, some version of the drama inspired by ellen wood’s book was probably seen by an audience somewhere in england or north america. " (source: mrs. Henry wood’s east lynne, edited and with an introduction by sally mitchell, rutgers university press: 1984). Date: 1 January 1884.
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