They were in time to reap the full force of Margaret Oliphant
's disapproval in her anti-sensation-novel article in Blackwood's. She found it deeply shocking that leading literary journals were praising Rupert Godwin...
Literary responses
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Margaret Oliphant
's critique of the sensation novel in 1867 relied heavily on attacking MEB
's reputation. The best she would say was that some of Braddon's works deserved some of their success. Braddon's sole...
Intertextuality and Influence
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton
Bulwer-Lytton in his later years mentored the young Mary Elizabeth Braddon
, offering her advice on her writings, often with reference to his own. Their literary friendship lasted until his death. Charles Reade
was also...
Textual Production
Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton
It had been written in 1866 but was not published for almost fifteen years (perhaps for fear of being sued for libel). One of her other life-writing texts was called Nemesis. She claimed that...
