The complete online text of Charlotte's Inheritance by Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

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...

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(A PARTILHA) (BRAZIL) A Columbia TriStar Pictures Intl. release (in Brazil) of a Lereby Prods., Globo Films presentation. (International sales: Grupo Novo De Cinema E TV, Rio De Janeiro.) Produced by Valeria Amorim. Executive producer, Caique Martins Ferreira. Directed by...