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...
Dunbar was the District's first interracial high school. Begun as a college preparatory school in 1870 in the basement of the 15th Street Presbyterian Church, the school was moved to Sumner School at 17th and M street NW in 1892 where it was known...
SQUAD OF the month The stars of MTV's True Life: I'm A Cheerleader invited you to watch them sweat it out at camp, deal with the pressures of last-minute changes and even meet defeat, all to accomplish one thingto prove cheerleaders are athletes....
