If biographer Jennifer Carnell
is correct, this means that she went on stage at the age of seventeen.
Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Work. Sensation Press.
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She later described her career in The Press Album (1909) as a thing to be spoken...
Occupation
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Her life as an actress took her, with her mother along as chaperone, out of London by the spring of 1853 to such places as Aberdeen, Bath (where she worked at the Theatre Royal
Timeline
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Texts
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Octoroon; or, The Lily of Louisiana, edited by Jennifer Carnell, Sensation Press, 1999, p. vii - xvii.
Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Work. Sensation Press, 2000.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. The Octoroon. Editor Carnell, Jennifer, Sensation Press, 1999.