Rae, W. Fraser. “Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon”. North British Review, Vol.
43
, 1865, pp. 180-04. 202
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
shared a candid literary correspondence with Edward Bulwer-Lytton
from early in her career until his death in 1873. To him she confided many of her anxieties about writing and her thoughts on other writers... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Waters argues that MEB
ought not to be condemned for clichés that she herself helped to establish. Rather we should examine them and the genre of the detective or sensation novel as an index of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton | This was among his most controversial novels; W. Fraser Rae
later praised it in his attack on Mary Elizabeth Braddon
's sensation fiction, and George Sala
cited it as a laudable antecedent in her defence. Rae, W. Fraser. “Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon”. North British Review, Vol. 43 , 1865, pp. 180-04. 202 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979. 206 |
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 | James Malcolm Rymer | It was reprinted as a book in 1850. JMR
was probably an editor of The People's Periodical and Family Library as well as a contributor. Although this original version of A String of Pearls features... |
Publishing | Helen Mathers | The story, a sketch of her brother-in-law Mr Hamborough
and his wife (the author's sister), was inspired by a visit with them to Jersey in the Channel Islands. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893. 75 |
Reception | Mary Fortune | Lucy Sussex names Fanny Fern
, George Augustus Sala
, and Charles Dickens
, as well as MF
's Australian contemporary Marcus Clarke
, as influences on her non-fiction writing. Sussex calls her tone vital... |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Dead-Sea Fruit contains a portrait of a struggling young actress, and another drawn from an actual friend of MEB
, journalist and critic George Augustus Sala
as Daniel Mayfield. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979. 184-5 |
Textual Features | James Malcolm Rymer | Penny-dreadful publishers were notorious for their zeal in marketing bloods. George Augustus Sala
relates how the proprietor of the Penny Dreadful to me a mild letter of remonstrance, begging me to put a little... |
Textual Features | Harriet Martineau | Critic Linda H. Peterson
places the Autobiography as a response to the domestic memoir generally and to the domestication of the religious and intellectual in the memoirs of various women including Charlotte Tonna
. Instead... |
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... |