Writing by SJD
suggests that some of her early reading included Sterne
and Defoe
. She also had access to Blackwood's and the Cornhill Magazine, and romantic novels by Mary Cecil Hay
and Mary Jane Holmes
.
Fowler, Marian. Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan. Anansi, 1983.
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Textual Production
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The monthly, intended to compete with the Cornhill and Temple Bar (which Maxwell had just sold) cost one shilling, and was aimed at the lower middle classes. MEB
's Birds of Prey, Bound to...
Timeline
1874: Mary Cecil Hay published Old Myddleton's...
Women writers item
1874
Mary Cecil Hay
published Old Myddleton's Money, an early detective story combining sensation fiction with small-town satire.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Maunder, Andrew, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Varieties of Women’s Sensation Fiction, 1855-1880. Vol. 6 vols., Pickering and Chatto.
