Marriage Bells — A Victoria Bestseller (The War, Love, and Romance Series)

Marriage Bells -- A Victoria Bestseller (The War, Love, and Romance Series)





Editor-in-Chief Celina Hills aims to present to the readers some of the Best Loved Books in the world on War Adventure, Love stories, and Romantic encounters. Many of the selected books were so popular that they were adapted to films many times.

Marriage Bells is an English sensation novel of 1861 by Ellen Wood. Originally titledEast Lynne, the book was a Victorian bestseller. It is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot, centering on infidelity and double identities. There have been numerous stage and film adaptations.

The plot: Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined young woman, leaves her hard-working but neglectful lawyer-husband and her infant children to elope with an aristocratic suitor. After he deserts her, and she bears their illegitimate child, Lady Isabel disguises herself and takes the position of governess in the household of her former husband and his new wife.

This book has been adapted for the stage many times; the play was so popular that stock companies put on a performance whenever they needed guaranteed revenue. The play was staged so often that critic Sally Mitchell estimates some version was seen by audiences in either England or North America every week for over forty years.

The story has been refilmed as recently as 1982, in a BBC made-for-television production starring Lisa Eichhorn. [Wikipedia.org]









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