[Gutenberg 40963] • Johnny Ludlow, Sixth Series

There seems to be a general consensus of opinion that Wood's Johnny Ludlow stories are her supreme achievement. For instance, on their first anonymous appearance in collected form in 1874 The Academy said that "anybody who has not yet read them had better do so without loss of time." Wood's entry in the Dictionary of National Biography states that the Johnny Ludlow stories "contain what is, from a literary point of view, by far her best work." The Johnny Ludlow stories are almost all extremely enjoyable, and in an age when the size of some Victorian novels can appear a little daunting, are remarkably succinct. Unfortunately, only the occasional individual tale has been reprinted in recent years, so Wood's delightful stories are relatively unknown to today's readers.

Johnny Ludlow – First Series through Sixth Series by Mrs. Henry Wood, author of “East Lynne,” “The Channings,” Etc.

Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen 1895.

CONTENTS.

First Series

Story 1. Losing Lena.

Story 2. Finding Both of Them.

Story 3. Wolfe Barrington’s Taming.

Story 4. Major Parrifer.

Story 5. Coming Home to Him.

Story 6. Lease, the Pointsman.

Story 7. Aunt Dean.

Story 8. Going through the Tunnel.

Story 9. Dick Mitchel.

Story 10. A Hunt by Moonlight.

Story 11. The Beginning of the End.

Story 12. “Jerry’s Gazette.”

Story 13. Sophie Chalk.

Story 14. At Miss Deveen’s.

Story 15. The Game Finished.

Story 16. Going to the Mop.

Story 17. Breaking Down.

Story 18. Reality or Delusion?

Story 19. David Garth’s Night-Watch.

Story 20. David Garth’s Ghost.

Story 21. Seeing Life.

Story 22. Our Strike.

Story 23. Bursting-Up.

Story 24. Getting Away.

Story 25. Over the Water.

Story 26. At Whitney Hall.

Second Series

Story 1. Lost in the Post.

Story 2. A Life of Trouble.

Story 3. Hester Reed’s Pills.

Story 4. Abel Crew.

Story 5. Robert Ashton’s Wedding-Day.

Story 6. Hardly Worth Telling.

Story 7. Charles Van Rheyn.

Story 8. Mrs. Todhetley’s Earrings.

Story 10. A Tale of Sin.

Story 11. A Day of Pleasure.

Story 12. The Final Ending to It.

Story 13. Margaret Rymer.

Story 14. The Other Earring.

Story 15. Anne.[2]

Story 16. The Key of the Church.

Story 17. The Syllabub Feast.

Story 18. Seen In the Moonlight.

Story 19. Rose Lodge.

Story 20. Lee, the Letter-Man.

Third Series

Story 1. The Mystery of Jessy Page.

Story 2. Crabb Ravine.

Story 3. Our Visit.

Story 4. Janet Carey.

Story 5. Helen Whitney’s Wedding.

Story 6. Helen’s Curate.

Story 7. Jellico’s Pack.

Story 8. Caromel’s Farm.

Story 9. Charlotte and Charlotte.

Story 10. The Last of the Caromels.

Story 11. A Day in Briar Wood.

Story 12. The Story of Dorothy Grape. Disappearance.

Story 13. The Story of Dorothy Grape. In after Years.

Story 14. Lady Jenkins. Mina.

Story 15. Lady Jenkins. Doubt.

Story 16. Lady Jenkins. Madame.

Story 17. Lady Jenkins. Light.

Story 18. The Angels’ Music.

Fourth Series

Story 1. A Mystery.

Story 2. Sandstone Torr.

Story 3. Chandler and Chandler.

Story 4. Verena Fontaine’s Rebellion.

Story 5. A Curious Experience.

Story 6. Roger Bevere.

Story 7. Ketira the Gipsy.

Story 8. The Curate of St. Matthew’s.

Story 9.