John Maxwell

After Maxwell retired in 1887, his publishing house still covered their household expenses, and MEB saved all of her substantial earnings from her writing. In 1893 she purchased yet another house near her family's estate...

She left a remarkably large estate for a Victorian woman writer. Despite the high style in which she lived, she was reportedly able from early in her career to save her literary earnings, since money...

In June of 1874 MEB and John Maxwell went on a two-week tour of Ireland.

A small scandal erupted in 1867 when the Athenæum pointed out that MEB 's Nobody's Daughter; or, The Ballad-Singer of Wapping, was in fact the same as the previously serialised Diavola; or, The Woman's...

This was the date of the first number of John Maxwell 's St. James's Magazine, which appeared under the editorship of AMH .

John Maxwell began publishing the monthly Belgravia: A London Magazine, primarily to include the work of his partner Mary Elizabeth Braddon : she was its editor for ten years, and wrote most of its fiction.

KSM first reached print with a short story in a recently-launched periodical, The Welcome Guest, A Magazine for All.

In the later 1870s MEB and John Maxwell built a country home in the New Forest, in the village of Bank (or Annesley Bank).

After this bad beginning, the book garnered no critical attention until MEB revised and reissued it in 1861, after the publication of Lady Audley's Secret, as The Trail of the Serpent. Sales were...

The same Gazette piece also drew attention to John Maxwell 's dubious advertising practices. A minor scandal ensued in a number of journals, fuelled by a forged letter from MEB as editor, claiming ignorance...

Further early short fiction by MEB appeared in The Welcome Guest, a John Maxwell publication that sold for twopence and aimed at the educated working classes. My Daughters, which appeared on 20 October...

From late 1861 MEB published in her future husband John Maxwell 's Temple Bar, edited by George Augustus Sala , a periodical which aimed to compete with the prestigious Cornhill Magazine. In...

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...

Periodicals were vital to MEB 's career from the beginning. Having set out by regularly contributing sensational fiction to the Halfpenny Journal, she continued to provide articles in, for example, Punch and The World...

The full title was Lucius Davoren; or, Publicans and Sinners, and it too appeared as by the author of Lady Audley's Secret. This contract left her free to earn additional money for the...