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.
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John Maxwell
Standard Name: Maxwell, John
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Occupation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Having several completed novels in hand, she was able to take it easy in the period following his death; her break from writing at this time was the first since the outset of her career... |
| 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. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | While appearing on stage MEB
must have found it a challenge to protect herself from unwanted sexual attentions. She attracted the attention, apparently without meeting disapproval from her mother, of newspaper proprietor Charles Bray
(who... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | |
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