Ashley, Mike. “Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Author of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Lady Audley’s Secret</span>”;. Book and Magazine Collector, Vol.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The full title was Lucius Davoren; or, Publicans and Sinners, and it too appeared as by the author of Lady Audley's Secret. This contract left her free to earn additional money for the... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Welcome Guest (published by John Maxwell
) printed MEB
's now well-known ghost story The Cold Embrace, before she had taken up residence in London to live by writing. Ashley, Mike. “Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Author of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Lady Audley’s Secret</span>”;. Book and Magazine Collector, Vol. 195 , Diamond Publishing, pp. 78-93. 81 |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Publisher John Maxwell
launched the Halfpenny Journal to appeal to the educated working class. MEB
wrote most of the material: seven or eight anonymous or pseudonymous novels over the next four years. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 118-19 |
Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | John Maxwell
began publishing the monthly Belgravia: A London Magazine, primarily to include the work of his partner Mary Elizabeth Braddon
: she was its editor for ten years, and wrote most of its fiction. Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. “Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Brief Chronology”. Aurora Floyd, edited by Richard Nemesvari and Lisa Surridge, Broadview. 41 |
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... |
Travel | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | In June of 1874 MEB
and John Maxwell
went on a two-week tour of Ireland. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 248, 250-1 |
Residence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | In the later 1870s MEB
and John Maxwell
built a country home in the New Forest, in the village of Bank (or Annesley Bank). Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 260 |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | After Maxwell
retired in 1887, his publishing house still covered their household expenses, and MEB
saved all of her substantial earnings from her writing. In 1893 she purchased yet another house near her family's estate... |
Occupation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Having several completed novels in hand, she was able to take it easy in the period following his death; her break from writing at this time was the first since the outset of her career... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | She left a remarkably large estate for a Victorian woman writer. Despite the high style in which she lived, she was reportedly able from early in her career to save her literary earnings, since money... |
Reception | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | After this bad beginning, the book garnered no critical attention until MEB
revised and reissued it in 1861, after the publication of Lady Audley's Secret, as The Trail of the Serpent. Sales were... |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Further early short fiction by MEB
appeared in The Welcome Guest, a John Maxwell
publication that sold for twopence and aimed at the educated working classes. My Daughters, which appeared on 20 October... |
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. 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
and her publisher John Maxwell
were living together out of wedlock. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 103 |
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