"East Lynne" by Mrs. Henry Wood: the problems of marriage and family in the Victorian sensational novel

The article analyses the novel "East Lynne" by Mrs. Henry Wood, an English Victorian writer. Her novels are the examples of the so-called "sen­sational novel". Such features of sensational novel as dramatic plot, playing with the distance between the author, reader and hero, polyphony, showing the heroine's inner world, as well as her motives inspire the reader to medi­tate on the problems of family, marriage, woman question and reconsider his attitude to the situation condemned by the Victorian moral values.