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...
On Earth Day, the office seemed the last place to be so I called in sick to death of indoors and headed for the Wolf, reaching the river as the low sun of morning bounced a blinding shimmer off the surface where fishermen swarmed....
Members of the Chiques Creek Watershed Alliance generally spend part of Earth Day weekend cleaning up an area around Rife Run, which flows through Mummau Park and Logan Park in Manheim. This year employees from Fenner Drives lent a hand. Saturday, about...
