On discovering her husband
's infidelity, Fanny Braddon
took the young Mary Elizabeth
and her siblings, and moved to St Leonards-on-Sea in Sussex.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Henry Braddon
's career as a solicitor was short-lived. He was caught out in dishonesty and asked to leave his firm one or two years after joining it. It was the family's guilty secret that...