Wood's work had been enormously popular, and was still popular when she died. Her eldest son Henry returned from the south of France, where Wood had spent the happiest days of her marriage, to be present. Besides the dutiful Charles, who had been helping her edit the Argosy for several years now, and continued to do so (see Sutherland 27), she was survived by two other sons and a daughter. The tomb-chest, of red Aberdeen granite, was particularly fine, copied from that of the Roman hero Scipio Africanus (see Wood 320). By her express wish, only those closest to her were in attendance (see "The Late Mrs Henry Wood"). She died of heart failure on 10 February 1887, aged 73, and was buried in Highgate cemetery on 16 February.
Īfter her husband died in 1866, Ellen Wood, who was by then living in Kensington, moved to St. Mrs Wood's monument in Highgate Cemetery her husband was disinterred so that he could be buried with her (see Flowers).
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