Mrs. Henry Wood (Gutenberg Index)

This is not a novel but a curated gateway into the Victorian literary world. David Widger's index catalogs the complete Project Gutenberg works of Mrs. Henry Wood, the prolific 19th-century author whose name once dominated English household reading. Wood wrote over 30 novels, with "East Lynne" becoming one of the era's most borrowed library books, outsold only by Dickens and a handful of contemporaries. This index transforms what could be mere metadata into a treasure map for readers who want to explore the full scope of her output: sensation novels, domestic dramas, and tales of social transgression that kept Victorian readers turning pages late into the night. For anyone curious about the breadth of Victorian popular fiction beyond the canonical names, this catalog is the essential first step.