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...
A tense struggle is underway in fog and drizzle at a small World War I-constructed military training camp in the southern part of the United Kingdom. But this contest has nothing to do with battlefield readiness. Locked in a virtual stalemate with the...
MY HUSBAND and I recently moved into a central London 1840s terrace house with a tiny garden - about 15ft square, with an additional paved area beside the house. The previous owners' maintenance was limited to mowing what passes for a lawn, but there...
