I was a fan of Mrs Henry Wood before I moved to Worcestershire, but her hugely entertaining 19th-century fiction is all the more fun to read in her home county. I was in Evesham today, a town I always associate with Johnny Ludlow, whose adventures take place somewhere near there (well, the geography of the earliest ones suggest he lives somewhere to the north of Alcester, but drift a little southwards and settle around Evesham as the series goes on).
More people should be reading Mrs Henry Wood; I should really write about her more often, just to try to create a new army of fans. She was briefly an enormously popular and well-known writer in the 1860s, you know.
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