If the fashion for sensation novels goes on, I tell you I will write one in fifty volumes.
He wrote over forty sensation novels like Mémoires du diable (1837-8).
The sensation novels of the 1860s and 1870s were fertile material for melodramatic adaptations.
Critic John Sutherland (1989) described the work as "the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels."
Since the former is considered the originator of the "sensation novel" -a wildly popular Victorian genre that blended.
East Lynne is an English sensation novel of 1861 by Ellen Wood.
The form melded into the sensation novels and early detective fiction of the 1850s and 1860s.
The piece satirises the sensation novels popular as pulp detective fiction in the Victorian era.
In this light, she has more in common with the "sensation novels" of Wilkie Collins and others, which she admired.
It has that big, long fever pitch of a 19th-century sensation novel.
