The Victorian novelist Ellen Wood, better known as “Mrs. Henry Wood”, became an international publishing phenomenon with the controversial ‘East Lynne’. Her works are noted for their domestic dramas, enticing mysteries and inimitable gift of storytelling, making them a unique example of nineteenth century fiction. This comprehensive eBook presents Wood’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 3) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wood’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 29 novels, with individual contents tables * Many rare novels appearing in digital print for the first time * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare short stories * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes Wood’s rare non-fiction text OUR CHILDREN – available in no other collection * Includes the memoir by the author’s son – first time in digital print * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * Updated with 9 novels and a biography CONTENTS: The Novels Danesbury House (1860) East Lynne (1861) A Life’s Secret (1862) Mrs. Halliburton’s Troubles (1862) The Channings (1862) The Foggy Night at Offord (1863) The Shadow of Ashlydyat (1863) Verner’s Pride (1863) Lord Oakburn’s Daughters (1864) Oswald Cray (1864) Trevlyn Hold (1864) William Allair (1864) Mildred Arkell (1865) It May Be True (1865) Elster’s Folly (1866) St. Martin’s Eve (1866) Lady Adelaide’s Oath (1867) Orville College (1867) Anne Hereford (1868) The Red Court Farm (1868) Roland Yorke (1869) Bessy Rane (1870) George Canterbury’s Will (1870) Within the Maze (1872) The Master of Greylands (1872) Edina (1876) Pomeroy Abbey (1878) Court Netherleigh (1881) The Story of Charles Strange (1888) The Shorter Fiction The Elchester College Boys (1861) The Ghost of the Hollow Field (1867) Johnny Ludlow (1874) Johnny Ludlow, Second Series (1880) Johnny Ludlow, Third Series (1885) Johnny Ludlow, Four Series (1889) Johnny Ludlow, Fifth Series (1899) Johnny Ludlow, Sixth Series (1899) The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction Our Children (1876) The Biographies Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood (1887) by Charles W. Wood Ellen Wood (1900) by Thomas Seccombe Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Our old gray church at Church Dykely stood in a solitary spot. Servant maids (two of ours once, Hannah and Molly), and silly village girls went there sometimes to watch for the "shadows" on St. Mark's Eve, and owls had a habit of darting out of the belfry at night. Within view of the church, though at some distance from it, stood the lonely, red-brick, angular dwelling-house belonging to Copse Farm. It was inhabited by Mr. Page, a plain worthy widower, getting in years; his three daughters and little son. Abigail and Susan Page, two experienced, sensible, industrious young women, with sallow faces and bunches of short dark curls, were at this period, about midway between twenty and thirty: Jessy, very much younger, was gone out to get two years' "finishing" at a plain boarding-school; Charles, the lad, had bad health and went to school by day at Church Dykely.