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Mary Elizabeth Braddon (
October 4,
1835 –
February 4,
1915) was a
British Victorian era popular
novelist. She is best known for her 1862
sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret.
Life
Born in
London in
England, Braddon was privately educated and worked as an actress for three years in order to be able to support herself and her mother Fanny, who had separated from her father Henry in
1840, when Mary was just three. When Mary was ten years old, her brother
Edward Braddon left for
British Raj India and later
Australia, where he'd become
Premier of Tasmania.
In
1860, Braddon met
John Maxwell, a publisher of periodicals, whom she started living with in 1861. However, Maxwell was married with five children and his wife was living in an
asylum in
Ireland. Mary acted as the stepmother of the children till
1874, when Maxwell's wife died, and they could get married. She had six children by him.
Braddon was an extremely prolific writer, producing some 75
novels with very inventive plots. The most famous one is her first novel,
Lady Audley's Secret (
1862), which won her recognition and fortune as well. The novel has been in print ever since, and has been dramatised and
filmed several times.
Braddon also founded
Belgravia Magazine (1866), which presented readers with serialized sensation novels, poems, travel narratives, and biographies, as well as essays on fashion, history, science. The magazine was accompanied by lavish illustrations and offered readers a source of literature at an affordable cost. She also edited
Temple Bar Magazine.
Braddon's legacy is tied to the
Sensation Fiction of the
1860s.
She died on
February 4,
1915 in
Richmond,
England and is interred there in Richmond Cemetery. Her home had been Lichfield House in the centre of town; it was replaced by a block of flats, the now listed Lichfield Court, in 1936. She has a plaque in Richmond Parish church and a number of streets in the area are named after characters in her novels; her husband was a property developer in the area.
Partial bibliography
Novels
Collections
Ralph the Bailiff and Other Tales (1862)
Theatre
Griselda (1873)Further Information
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