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Mrs. Henry Wood
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Mrs. Henry Wood

BookPaperback
Ranking1199776inBelletristik
CHF55.90

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This new book examines the career and works of Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood [nee Ellen Strand Price, 1814-87), the author of the enormously successful and sensational mid-Victorian bestseller: East Lynne (1861), and many others. / Thomas Seccombe's DNB notice of Mrs. Wood in 1900 said that The Channings had sold 200,000 by 1898; The Shadow of Ashlydyat (
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-912224-93-7
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publishing date28/05/2020
SeriesKey Popular Women Writers
Pages240 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 140 mm, Height 216 mm, Thickness 13 mm
Weight308 g
Article no.38629766
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.29550122
Product groupBelletristik
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Mariaconcetta Costantini is Professor of English Literature at G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, and, from 2021, Visiting Professor at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK. Her areas of research and teaching are Victorian literature and culture, and postcolonial literature. She has published six monographs, articles, and book chapters. Her publications also include essays on contemporary fiction and Anglophone writers, with particular attention to African authors (Ben Okri, Chinua Achebe, Dennis Brutus). She has explored different aspects of Okri's oeuvre, given papers on him, and published articles, book chapters, and a monograph ("Behind the Mask. A Study of Ben Okri's Fiction," 2002). Professor Costantini serves on several editorial boards both in Italy and abroad, among them "Gothic Studies," "The Hopkins Quarterly," "Crime Fiction Studies," "Italian Americana." She is co-editor of the book series "AngloSophia. Studies in English Literature and Culture" and the online peer-reviewed journal "Victorian Popular Fictions."