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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Wealth and Poverty | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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... |
Reception | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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... |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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... |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 115-17 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
and her publisher John Maxwell
were living together out of wedlock. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 103 |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Newspapers spread, apparently at publisher John Maxwell
's behest, the story that he and MEB
had recently married; this rumour was soon discredited when his wife's family publicly protested. His wife's brother-in-law, Richard Brinsley Knowles |
Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | As soon after the death of his first wife as he was legally able, John Maxwell
finally married MEB
, after a thirteen-year common-law relationship. Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. “Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Brief Chronology”. Aurora Floyd, edited by Richard Nemesvari and Lisa Surridge, Broadview. 41 Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 251 |
Reception | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The same Gazette piece also drew attention to John Maxwell
's dubious advertising practices. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 211 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Welcome Guest (published by John Maxwell
) printed MEB
's now well-known ghost story The Cold Embrace, before she had taken up residence in London to live by writing. Ashley, Mike. “Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Author of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Lady Audley’s Secret</span>”;. Book and Magazine Collector, Vol. 195 , Diamond Publishing, pp. 78-93. 81 |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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... |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Publisher John Maxwell
launched the Halfpenny Journal to appeal to the educated working class. MEB
wrote most of the material: seven or eight anonymous or pseudonymous novels over the next four years. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 118-19 |
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