WOOD, MRS

Henry, the novelist, was bom in 1814, and published her first novel, 44 Danesbury House,’’ in i860, 44 East Lynne” following in 1861. Her work is rather vulgar and e entially common-place melodrama, except in “Johnny Ludlow”; but she was very popular, and “East Lynne’’ has had a very large sale. She died in 1887.