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 | Author name Sort descending | 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... |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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. Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. “Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Brief Chronology”. Aurora Floyd, edited by Richard Nemesvari and Lisa Surridge, Broadview. 41 |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Anna Maria Hall | This was the date of the first number of John Maxwell
's St. James's Magazine, which appeared under the editorship of AMH
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe. 202 |
| Textual Production | Katharine S. Macquoid | KSM
first reached print with a short story in a recently-launched periodical, The Welcome Guest, A Magazine for All. Her publications here and later in Temple Bar and Belgravia magazines suggest a sustained connection... |
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