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Education | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Later in life, she did Latin translation with her children and taught herself some Greek, in hopes, according to biographer and critic Robert Lee Wolff
, of remedying the deficiency in her education that caused... |
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... |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Margaret Oliphant
's critique of the sensation novel in 1867 relied heavily on attacking MEB
's reputation. The best she would say was that some of Braddon's works deserved some of their success. Braddon's sole... |
Literary responses | May Laffan | This book sold well, and remains ML
's most successful novel. Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005. 72 |
Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
's meticulous character study and tragic love story is sometimes considered her best novel. It was positively received by George Meredith
, Sir J. M. Barrie
, and Henry James. James
wrote to her... |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Robert Lee Wolff
considers this, with Joshua Haggard's Daughter, one of her two masterpieces. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979. 8 |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Athenæum praised MEB
's command of English and avoidance of sensationalism in this work. Athenæum. J. Lection. 3164 (1888): 759 Burmester, James, Rosamund Burmester, and Emma Pound. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985. 69: 36 |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Critic Robert Lee Wolff
places this among MEB
's best works for its psychological delicacy and stylistic economy and its bold treatment of physical love. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979. 392, 395 |
Publishing | Annie Keary | She had worked on this novel both at Pégomas near Cannes in the South of France and at her home in Kensington. For some reason she found none of her usual pleasure in composition... |
Publishing | May Laffan | A new edition of Hogan, M.P. appeared from Macmillan
in 1881 (reissued in 1883), and a New York edition from G. Munro
in 1882. The novel was thereafter out of print until Garland Publishing
reprinted... |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | From late 1861 MEB
published in her future husband John Maxwell
's Temple Bar, edited by George Augustus Sala
, a periodical which aimed to compete with the prestigious Cornhill Magazine. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979. 115-17 |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | A subplot excised in revision as Henry Dunbar was recycled into the short story Lost and Found: this removed the bigamy and blackmail from the novel. This time the novel in book form was... |
Publishing | Charlotte Riddell | A New York edition from Harper, compressing three volumes to one, appeared the following year. A Garland
facsimile appeared in 1979 in a series on Ireland and Irish politics, with an introduction by Robert Lee Wolff |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | A dashing East India Company
officer bilks the heir to a baronetcy of his fortune by kidnapping him and substituting the murderous son of a gamekeeper, who is in turn murdered by the family of... |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The philanthropic aristocrat Charles Raymond in this story is based on MEB
's friend Charles Bray
. Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Work. Sensation Press, 2000. 53 |
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