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...
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...
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...
TROMP, Marlene, Pamela K. Gilbert, and Aeron Haynie. Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context. Albany: State UP of New York, 2000. xxviii, 302 pp. $19.95. For all the talk about canon-busting, our roll of Victorian literary landmarks has remained relatively unchanged. We...
9780874139440 From sensation to society; representations of marriage in the fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1862-1866. Schroeder, Natalie and Ronald A. Schroeder. Univ. of Delaware Press 2006 290 pages $52.50 Hardcover PR4989 Braddon, best known...
In the following essay, Pykett examines the novels of Mary Elizabeth Braddon to discuss the relationship between Victorian gender roles and the convention of the family secret in sensation novels.
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