On 9 November 1865 the young Henry James published an essay in The Nation titled "Miss Braddon." The occasion was the runaway success of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's fifth novel, Aurora Floyd (1863). James placed Aurora Floyd and Lady Audley's Secret (1862),...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, a popular and successful Victorian novelist, mounted an audacious challenge to the codes of literary propriety. A major force in the development of the modern crime novel, she turned conventional morality on its head by describing...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, later Mrs. John Maxwell, is still best known as "the author of Lady Audley's Secret ," to quote the standard publisher's rubric that followed her around on title pages throughout her long career. Although she eventually wrote at l...
Some things do change. Whoever thought you'd see the day when Larry Bird showed up for a game wearing lavender? The way things are going for his former franchise, he could show up in Boston wearing an Old Navy ensemble, cargo pants, or...
For the second straight day, Hermann Maier was master of the mountain, pacing training yesterday in preparation for a men's World Cup downhill race today in Beaver Creek, Colo. The powerful Austrian, who paced Thursday's training run by .21 seconds over Italy's Kristian Ghedina,...
Bison were being rescued by boat and birds were searching for dry spots to perch as officials worked Sunday to clean up after flooding at the Hutchinson Zoo.The zoo has been closed since Thursday after more than 7 inches of rain fell Wednesday night. The...
BEAVER CREEK, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Overall World Cup champion Aksel Lund Svindal could be sidelined for up to six weeks after undergoing surgery on Wednesday following a serious downhill training accident. A team of three doctors operated simultaneously on the Norwegian skier for...
