Mary Elizabeth Braddon British novelist (1837 – 1915)

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (October 4, 1837 – February 4, 1915) was a British Victorian era popular novelist. Mary Elizabeth Braddon British novelist (1837 - 1915) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in Leap years). ... 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian era of Great Britain is considered the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ...

Born in London in England, Braddon was privately educated and worked as an actress for three years in order to able to support herself and her mother Fanny, who had separated from her father Henry in 1840, when Mary was just three. When Mary was ten years old, her brother Edward Braddon left for India and later Australia, where he would become Premier of Tasmania. London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Travel guide to England from Wikitravel English language English law English (people) List of monarchs of England – Kings of England family tree List of English people Angeln (region in northern Germany, presumably the origin of the Angles for whom England is named) UK... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sir Edward Braddon Rt Hon Sir Edward Braddon PC KCMG (11 June 1829 – 2 February 1904), Australian politician, was the Premier of Tasmania from 1894 to 1899, and was a Member of the First Australian Parliament in the House of Representatives. ... Before the 1890s there was no formal party system in Tasmania. ...

In 1860, Braddon met John Maxwell, a publisher of periodicals. However, Maxwell was married with five children and his wife was insane. She had acted as the stepmother of the children till 1874, when Maxwell's wife died, and they could get married. She had six children by him. 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... John Maxwell was the name of many notable people including: John Maxwell (writer) John C. Maxwell (life coach, writer) John Maxwell (actor) who appeared in over 100 films in the 1940s and 1950s ...

Braddon was an extremely prolific writer, producing some 75 novels with very inventive plots. The most famous one is her first novel, Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which won her recognition and fortune as well. The novel has been in print ever since, and has been dramatised and filmed several times. DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Lady Audleys Secret is a novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, written in 1862. ... Look up film in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Braddon also founded "Belegravia Magazine" (1866), which presented readers with serialized sensation novels, poems, travel narratives, and biographies, as well as essays on fashion, history, science. The magazine was accompanied by lavish illustrations and offered readers a source of literature at an affordable cost.

Braddon's legacy is tied to the Sensationalist Fiction of the 1860s.

She died on February 4, 1915 in Richmond upon Thames, England and is interred there in the Richmond Cemetery. February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Richmond is a suburb in southwest London, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Travel guide to England from Wikitravel English language English law English (people) List of monarchs of England – Kings of England family tree List of English people Angeln (region in northern Germany, presumably the origin of the Angles for whom England is named) UK...

Partial bibliography

Novels

• The Octoroon (1861)
• The Black Band (1861)
• Lady Audley's Secret (1862)
• Aurora Floyd (1863)
• Eleanor's Victory (1863)
• Henry Dunbar: the Story of an Outcast (1864)
• Circe (1867)
• Dead-Sea Fruit (1868)
• Fenton's Quest (1871)
• To the Bitter End (1872)
• Publicans and Sinners (1873)
• Lost For Love (1874)
• Hostages to Fortune (1875)
• An Open Verdict (1878)
• The Cloven Foot (1879)
• Vixen (1879)
• Asphodel (1881)
• Phantom Fortune (1883)
• Ishmael. A Novel (1884)
• Cut by the County (1887)
• The Fatal Three (1888)
• One Life, One Love (1890)
• The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1891)
• The Venetians (1892)
• The Christmas Hirelings (1894)
• Sons of Fire (1895)
• London Pride (1896)
• Rough Justice (1898)
• His Darling Sin (1899)
• The Infidel (1900)
• Dead Love Has Chains (1907)
• During Her Majesty's Pleasure (1908)

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Theatre

• Griselda (1873)

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External links

• Works by Mary Elizabeth Braddon at Project Gutenberg
• Works at the Victorian Women Writers Project