The complete online text of Fenton's Quest 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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Nivasch, Esther The Jewish Week 04-15-2005 Fruma Roth picks the next victim. "Skeletons in Closets" is a serial work of fiction. A new chapter, written by a different author, will appear in every issue. This installment is Chapter Seven, "The Quest." ...