Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
115-17
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
Textual Production | Anna Maria Hall | This was the date of the first number of John Maxwell
's St. James's Magazine, which appeared under the editorship of AMH
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe. 202 |
Textual Production | Katharine S. Macquoid | KSM
first reached print with a short story in a recently-launched periodical, The Welcome Guest, A Magazine for All. Her publications here and later in Temple Bar and Belgravia magazines suggest a sustained connection... |
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