Edina： A Novel

Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 3.2
Word count
886K words
Chapters
89

Tags

English Originals Social Fiction Portrait GalleryLove EntanglementsTender SentimentMoral DilemmaVictorian Era

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Edina: A Novel by Mrs. Henry WoodAuthor: Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887,Language: English, Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature, Release Date: Jan 15, 2019

Editor's review

Edina is a work by Mrs. Henry Wood, a prolific Victorian novelist, now available as a free ebook through Project Gutenberg. Wood was known for tightly plotted, suspenseful domestic and sentimental narratives, and this novel likewise continues the nineteenth-century English novel's detailed unfolding of social relations, family secrets, and individual fates. For readers studying Victorian popular literature, women's writing, or the history of the English novel, it is a directly accessible primary text; for general readers, it offers a window into the reading pleasures of serial fiction of the period. The electronic edition is easy to search and excerpt, making it suitable as classroom supplementary material or a sample for comparative reading. Note that the book is in the original English, its language bearing the marks of its era, and the Project Gutenberg edition prioritizes textual accessibility rather than modern annotation; readers should understand character motivation and narrative pacing in light of the period context.

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Reading tips

  1. Learn about Victorian serial fiction publishing first, then enter the text, to better grasp its narrative rhythm.
  2. Keep notes on character relationships and family clues to follow the multi-stranded suspense.
  3. Read alongside other works by Wood to compare plot patterns and portrayals of women.
  4. For the original English, read a fixed daily portion; mark period usages and look them up together afterward.

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About the author

Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887 Author

Mrs. Henry Wood (1814–1887) was a British novelist of the Victorian era. Public information about her is limited, and few details of her life are known, yet the library holds 36 of her works, suggesting that she was widely read in her day. She is best known for the novel East Lynne, which deals with domestic upheaval, marital crisis and emotional entanglement; its intricate plot, strong sentiment and moral admonition made it a favourite on the stage as well. She also wrote the three-volume The Story of Charles Strange, the Johnny Ludlow series and The Channings, most of which are set against the daily life of country gentry and ordinary people and rely on serial-style suspense to drive the narrative.