The complete online text of The Lovels of Arden by Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

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...

Hazel Dams has been in touch with a musical dynamo In Sara Lovell's world everything is "great!" or "lovely!" All words have exclamation marks after them and there is no room, I repeat no room, for negatives. It's not hard to see, therefore,...

Leslie Arden has created another masterpiece in 'The House of Martin Guerre,' which won her the Dora Award for Best New Musical in 1993. It is a musical about a French peasant farm boy who was forced into an arranged marriage in a 16th-century...