He married Susanna Bennett in 1844. She later passed away in 1858. His overall body work, you know, in the 30s and early 40s have been collected as something called the Purcell papers. That's a bunch of Irish Gothic horror in the for 1840s. He's writing historical fictions set in Ireland. In the 60s and 70s, he's writing what are called sensation novels, modeled after Wilkie Collins. They're characters exploring various social anxieties of the Victorian era.