Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1837-1915
Biographical note
English author of Victorian "sensation" novels. Braddon was an extremely prolific writer, producing some 75 novels with very inventive plots. The most famous one is 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.
Works
- The Trail of the Serpent [1860]
- The Octoroon [1861]
- The Black Band [1861]
- Lady Audley's Secret [1862]
- John Marchmont's Legacy [1862–3]
- Darrell Markham: or, The captain of the Vulture. A novel [1863]
- Aurora Floyd [1863]
- Eleanor's Victory [1863]
- Henry Dunbar: the story of an outcast [1864]
- The Doctor's wife [1864]
- Only a Clod [1865]
- Circe [1867]
- Rupert Godwin ; a novel [1867]
- Birds of Prey [1867]
- Charlotte's Inheritance [1868]
- Run to Earth [1868]
- Dead-Sea Fruit [1868]
- Fenton's Quest [1871]
- The Lovels of Arden [1871]
- To the Bitter End [1872]
- Robert Ainsleigh [1872]
- Publicans and Sinners [1873]
- Lost For Love [1874]
- Taken at the Flood [1874]
- A Strange World [1875]
- Hostages to Fortune [1875]
- Joseph Haggard [1876]
- Dead Men's Shoes [1876]
- An Open Verdict [1878]
- The Cloven Foot [1879]
- Vixen [1879]
- Asphodel [1881]
- Phantom Fortune, a Novel [1883]
- The Golden Calf [1883]
- Ishmael. A Novel [1884]
- Cut by the County [1887]
- The Fatal Three [1888]
- One Life, One Love [1890]
- The World, the Flesh and the Devil [1891]
- The Venetians [1892]
- The Christmas Hirelings [1894]
- Thou Art The Man [1894]
- Sons of Fire [1895]
- London Pride : or When the World Was Younger [1896]
- Rough Justice [1898]
- His Darling Sin [1899]
- The Infidel [1900]
- The White House [1906]
- Dead Love Has Chains [1907]
- During Her Majesty's Pleasure [1908]
- Milly Darrell
