Ellen Wood's potboiler from Victorian times tells the sad story of Isabel Vane, devoted wife and mother, who in a moment of madness allows herself to be seduced by a man who proves unworthy of her. Penniless and disgraced, abandoned by her lover and rejected by her husband--and hideously disfigured in a railway accident to boot--she takes a job as governess to her own children. They do not recognize her because of her scars, and when her little boy dies, she enters into a melancholic depression and finally dies, but not ...
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Ellen Wood's potboiler from Victorian times tells the sad story of Isabel Vane, devoted wife and mother, who in a moment of madness allows herself to be seduced by a man who proves unworthy of her. Penniless and disgraced, abandoned by her lover and rejected by her husband--and hideously disfigured in a railway accident to boot--she takes a job as governess to her own children. They do not recognize her because of her scars, and when her little boy dies, she enters into a melancholic depression and finally dies, but not before revealing to her husband the tragic truth of her identity. A best-seller in its day, EAST LYNNE deeply affected thousands of people, and the stage version, performed in both London and New York in the 1860s, was wildly popular.
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