Serialisations of Wood's Novels, Books & Other Longer Works

Compiled by Michael Flowers ©2001-2006

    1. Serialisations are all in monthly periodicals, unless indicated as weekly.[W]
    2. The anonymous earliest versions of much-expanded later novels are excluded from the list.
      These are to be featured in the Bibliography of Wood's Shorter Contributions to Periodicals,
      which is currently under construction.

                                        Highgate                                        An illustration from the original serialisation of A Life's Secret.

    East Lynne

    New Monthly Magazine

    January 1860 - September 1861.

    The Channings

    The Quiver

    1861 - 1862. [W].

    The Shadow of Ashlydyat

    New Monthly Magazine

    October 1861 - November 1863.*

    A Life's Secret

    The Leisure Hour

    2 January - 24 May 1862 . [W].

    Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles

    The Quiver

    19 April - 6 December 1862. [W].

    Verner's Pride

    Once A Week

    28 June 1862 - 7 February 1863. [W].

    William Allair;
    or Running Away to Sea

    The Quiver

    13 December 1862 - 31 January 1863. [W].

    Trevlyn Hold;
    or Squire Trevlyn's Heir

    The Quiver

    7 February - 19 September 1863. [W].

    Oswald Cray

    Good Words

    January - December 1864.

    Lord Oakburn's Daughters

    Once A Week

    19 March - 8 October 1864. [W].

    Lady Adelaide's Oath

    Temple Bar

    April 1866 - March 1867.

    Orville College

    Routledge's
    Every Boy's Magazine

    1867.

    Anne Hereford

    Argosy

    December 1867 - December 1868.

    Roland Yorke

    Argosy

    January - December 1869.

    George Canterbury's Will

    Tinsley's Magazine

    April 1869 - May 1870.

    Bessy Rane

    Argosy

    January - December 1870.

    Dene Hollow

    Argosy

    January - December 1871.

    Within the Maze

    Argosy

    January - December 1872.

    The Master of Greylands

    Argosy

    January - December 1873.

    Parkwater

    Argosy

    January - September 1875.

    Bessy Wells

    Sunday Magazine

    January - April 1875.

    Edina

    Argosy

    January - December 1876.

    Pomeroy Abbey

    Argosy

    January - December 1878.


                                                                The front cover of the Argosy

    The front cover of the Argosy for December 1878, which contained the final instalment of Pomeroy Abbey.**

    Court Netherleigh

    Argosy

    January - December 1881.

    Lady Grace

    Argosy

    January - October 1887.

    The Story of Charles Strange

    Argosy

    January - December 1888.

    Featherston's Story

    Argosy

    January - June 1889.

    The House of Halliwell

    Argosy

    January - December 1890.


      * My thanks to Victor A. Berch who kindly sent me this information.
    ** Photograph kindly supplied by Jennifer Carnell  © The Sensation Press.



    Sources
    Rolf Burgauer, Mrs. Henry Wood: Personlichkeit und Werk, Zurich: Juris-Verlag, 1950.
    Michael Flowers, Unpublished Research.
    Alvin Sullivan (ed.), British Literary Magazines: The Victorian & Edwardian Age, 1837-1913,1984.
    Robert Lee Wolff, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, New York: Garland, 1986.