Complex sentence: Morel's wife was long reported to have been Japanese, but this was made up by a novelist to make Morel's story more interesting: he married Harriett Wynder, an Englishwoman, on 4 February 1862 at St Pancras Church in London.
Split into simpler sentences: Morel's wife was long reported to have been a Japanese national, but it has since been proven that this story was made up by a novelist to make the Morel's story more interesting. Recent research shows that Morel married Harriett Wynder, an English national, on 4 February 1862 at St. Pancras Church in London.