I followed the story with relish beginning to end, and just when things seemed predictable, I found they weren’t. Wood stood on this, I thought she handled the subject in a fair and thoughtful manner and painted a sad and tragic, but not a villainous, figure in Lady Isabel. Henry Wood, it must have been a struggle to understand what forces could compel a decent woman to end up with one. For someone who wrote under the appellation, Mrs.
Not that she doesn’t hold some responsibility for her own fate, but was there ever a woman born under a less auspicious star?įor the Victorians, marriage was still a sacred institution and inviolable, divorce was a new idea and allowed only for the most immoral of infractions. I was enthralled by the character of Lady Isabel Carlyle and her ill-fated life story.
A sensational Victorian novel that tackles jealousy, love triangles, mistaken identities, murder, and divorce, East Lynne was seven hundred pages of unputdownable.
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