Henry Wood

Henry Wood, often published as Mrs. Henry Wood or Ellen Wood, was an English novelist and magazine editor best known for East Lynne and the periodical The Argosy. Her fiction helped shape Victorian sensation and domestic melodrama, combining family secrets, moral pressure, inheritance, illness, and social consequence. Readers interested in popular Victorian fiction, serialized storytelling, and emotionally charged plots will find Wood's work a revealing bridge between household realism and suspense.