HJ
began a correspondance with Charles Reade
in order to apologize for the misunderstanding which frequently attributed her first novel, The Queen of Connaught, to him. He replied with congratulations and advice, and the...
Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothea Du Bois
This most sensational trial of the mid-century was reported in detail by the Gentleman's Magazine the following year, and used in more or less avowed fictions by Eliza Haywood
in Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young...
Education
John Strange Winter
After this she completed her education at home. Although even in this context she says, I was not well educated, for I never would learn,
Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke.
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she also described herself as having always been from...
Dedications
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB
published another novel, Birds of Prey, serially in Belgravia; it appeared in volume form in October as by the author of Lady Audley's Secret, Aurora Floyd, etc., and dedicated to Charles Reade
.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2085 (1867): 461
Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Work. Sensation Press.