Dernière sortie
East Lynne
Lady Isabel leaves her husband and children for a man who does not want the burden, and returns - governess to her own children, unrecognised, in her own former house. Mrs Henry Wood wrote lying on a couch, curved from childhood by a spinal condition, and produced the sensation novel of the century: the stage version played for fifty years, and the line about the dead boy became a byword for Victorian excess.
