was the periodical writer Ellen Wood’s second novel. It was first serialized in

from January 1860 to September 1861. Bentley and Son published the work as a triple-decker novel in autumn of 1861, and it went through four editions in six months. The novel was a tremendous success, both in Great Britain and internationally; by the turn of the twentieth century, it had sold more than a million copies (Liggins and Maunder 2008: p. 150) and was translated into most European languages as well as into Hindi and Gujarati (Tromp 2011: 257). Stage adaptations were also immensely popular all over the world, though Wood herself received no renumeration from them (Tromp 2011: p. 262).

Wood’s motivations for writing East Lynne were

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Citation: Shely, Calinda. "East Lynne". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 October 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5457, accessed 21 November 2024.]