John Maxwell

In the later 1870s MEB and John Maxwell built a country home in the New Forest, in the village of Bank (or Annesley Bank).

A small scandal erupted in 1867 when the Athenæum pointed out that MEB 's Nobody's Daughter; or, The Ballad-Singer of Wapping, was in fact the same as the previously serialised Diavola; or, The Woman's...

This was the date of the first number of John Maxwell 's St. James's Magazine, which appeared under the editorship of AMH .

KSM first reached print with a short story in a recently-launched periodical, The Welcome Guest, A Magazine for All.

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.

In June of 1874 MEB and John Maxwell went on a two-week tour of Ireland.

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...

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...