East Lynne

A Story of a Divided House

Mrs. Henry Wood

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785501165335
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Lady Isabel leaves her husband and children for a man who does not want the burden, and returns — governess to her own children, unrecognised, in her own former house. Mrs Henry Wood wrote lying on a couch, curved from childhood by a spinal condition, and produced the sensation novel of the century: the stage version played for fifty years, and the line about the dead boy became a byword for Victorian excess. Fifty-seven plates of painting, among them works by Arthur Hughes and William Bell Scott, bring the Victorian domestic interiors, portraits and landscapes of the novel's world into the volume.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Chapter I. The Lady Isabel.
• Chapter II. The Broken Cross.
• Chapter III. Barbara Hare.
• Chapter IV. The Moonlight Interview.
• Chapter V. Mr. Carlyle’s Office.
• Chapter VI. Richard Hare, the Younger.
• Chapter VII. Miss Carlyle at Home.
• Chapter VIII. Mr. Kane’s Concert.
• Chapter IX. The Song and the Dirge.
• Chapter X. The Keepers of the Dead.
• Chapter XI. The New Peer—The Bank-Note
• Chapter XII. Life at Castle Marling.
• Chapter XIII. A Moonlight Walk.
• Chapter XIV. The Earl’s Astonishment.
• Chapter XV. Coming Home.
• Chapter XVI. Domestic Troubles.
• Chapter XVII. Visit of the Hare Family.
• Chapter XVIII. Miss Carlyle—Isabel Unhappy.
• Chapter XIX. Captain Thorn at West Lynne.
• Chapter XX. Going from Home.
• Chapter XXI. Quitting the Danger.
• Chapter XXII. Mrs. Hare’s Dream.
• Chapter XXIII. Captain Thorn in Trouble About “A Bill.”
• Chapter XXIV. Richard Hare at Mr. Dill’s Window.
• Chapter XXV. Charming Results.
• Chapter XXVI. Alone for Evermore.
• Chapter XXVII. Barbara’s Misdoings.
• Chapter XXVIII. An Unexpected Visitor at East Lynne.
• Chapter XXIX. A Night Invasion of East Lynne.
• Chapter XXX. Barbara’s Heart at Rest.
• Chapter XXXI. Mr. Dill in an Embroidered Shirt-Front.
• Chapter XXXII. Meeting of Lady Isabel and Afy.
• Chapter XXXIII. The Yearning of a Breaking Heart.
• Chapter XXXIV. An M. P. for West Lynne.
• Chapter XXXV. A Mishap to the Blue Spectacles.
• Chapter XXXVI. Appearance of a Russian Bear at West Lynne.
• Chapter XXXVII. Mr. Carlyle Invited to Some Pate De Foie Gras.
• Chapter XXXVIII. The World Turned Upside Down.
• Chapter XXXIX. Mrs. Carlyle in Full Dress, Afy Also.
• Chapter XL. The Justice-Room.
• Chapter XLI. Firm!
• Chapter XLII. The Trial.
• Chapter XLIII. The Death Chamber.
• Chapter XLIV. Lord Vane Dating Forward.
• Chapter XLV. “It Won’t Do, Afy!”
• Chapter XLVI. Until Eternity.
• Chapter XLVII. I. M. V.
• About the Author