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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 througho...
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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 ...
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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). Jame...
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In the following essay, Gilbert examines the ways in which Braddon molded her public image through her use of various literary genres and tropes.
M. E. Braddon (1835-1915), certainly one of the most p...
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In the following essay, Hughes discusses the role of the sinful woman in the works of Braddon and her contemporary, Mrs. Henry Wood.
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“My own Edgardo!—and you still love me? You still ...
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In the following essay, Casey examines Braddon's handling of Victorian moral conventions in her works, noting that Braddon tended to be far more conservative in her writing than in her life.
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In the following essay, Schroeder analyzes the ways in which sensationalist writers like Braddon encouraged Victorian women to subvert repressive social conventions.
Twentieth-century critics have rec...
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In the following essay, Robinson discusses Braddon's attempts to influence the critical discussion of “light literature” through the publication of her journal Belgravia.
In Augus...
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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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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Critical Essay by Pamela K. Gilbert
