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...
Nearly everyone has a dog story. The dog is such a versatile character. Companion to the secret exploit of childhood. Feverish enactor of the mechanics of propagation. Witness to the family's ebb and flow. Mirror of human foible. Mortal friend. Ghost of memory. ...
Naomi Wolf, the American babe of contemporary feminism, is shaking her head in disbelief. I've just asked how many men she's slept with. "That seems to me to be a weirdly male identified question," she shoots back with contempt. It's nothing of the sort....
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