Although they initially promised MEB
£250 for Lady Audley's Secret (£300 if it was reviewed in the Times), the Tinsley Brothers
paid her £500 beyond this.
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It was published in three volumes in December 1863, as by the author of Lady Audley's Secret, with Tinsley Brothers
, who paid £2,000 for two-year leases on this and Braddon's next novel.
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A subplot excised in revision as Henry Dunbar was recycled into the short story Lost and Found: this removed the bigamy and blackmail from the novel. This time the novel in book form was...