![]() It was published in the league's stronghold, Glasgow. Her first novel, Danesbury House (1860), was dashed off for a competition held by the Scottish Temperance League, which she duly won. Since 1851 Wood had been contributing stories regularly to Harrison Ainsworth's Bentley's Miscellany and, since the year before she left France, his New Monthly Magazine (see Jay xviii), but now she needed to earn proper money, and began writing in earnest - perhaps even in desperation. On their return to England, the Woods rented a house in the pleasant and still quite rural suburb of Upper Norwood, on the southern outskirts of London. Deane's American stage version of East Lynne for the season 1902-3, facing p. Rebecca Warren as "Lady Isabelle / Madame Vine" in William J. ![]()
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