• Name: Wood, Mrs Somerville
• Gender: Female
• Birth Date: Jamaica
• Death Date: 15  December  1867

Mrs. Wood was the daughter of Cossley Hall of Hyde Hall in Jamaica. Her sister was Miss Mary Cossley Hall who died in 1844. Mrs. Woods originally married a Mr. Green (also from Jamaica) by whom she had a daughter who became Mrs. Leicester Stanhope. After her marriage to Mr. Wood she became as society hostess, whom Godwin and Mary Shelley saw a good deal between 1831 and 1835. She was famous for large parties with unusual people, and a large measure of foreigners!

The entries for 1796 and 1804 have not been coded as Mrs. Wood. 'Wood' appearing with Gaskell and Stanhope has been taken to be a shorthand reference to Mrs. Wood and coded accordingly.

• The Derby Mercury, 1 January 1868
• The journals of Mary Shelley, 1814–1844, ed. by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, 2 vols (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press; Clarendon Press, 1987).

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