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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

October 04, 1835

Died

February 04, 1915

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Horror

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a British Victorian era popular novelist. She 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. She also edited Temple Bar Magazine. Braddon's legacy is tied to the Sensation Fiction of the 1860s.

She is also the mother of novelist W.B. Maxwell. ...more

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Average rating: 3.75 · 49,987 ratings · 5,289 reviews · 1,066 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lady Audley's Secret 3.78 avg rating — 27,052 ratings — published 1862 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Christmas Hirelings 3.64 avg rating — 6,914 ratings — published 1894 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Doctor's Wife 3.74 avg rating — 1,865 ratings — published 1864 — 144 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aurora Floyd by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, P.D. Edwards (Editor) 3.74 avg rating — 1,806 ratings — published 1863 — 95 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trail of the Serpent 3.52 avg rating — 821 ratings — published 1860 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Face in the Glass and Other Gothic Tales 3.80 avg rating — 513 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Lady Ducayne 3.42 avg rating — 521 ratings — published 1869	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cold Embrace 3.56 avg rating — 374 ratings — published 1860 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Henry Dunbar 3.76 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 1864 — 151 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadow in the Corner 3.65 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 1879 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret

tags: domesticity, prettiness, tea, victorian-society, women

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“Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret

tags: ataraxy, individuality, reclusiveness, self-containment, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, silence, solitude

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“Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Aurora Floyd

tags: depth, egotism

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The Professor by Charlotte Brontë 1857, 269 pages

88 votes, 27.9%

The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous -1750, 120 pages

78 votes, 24.8%

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 1862, 244 pages

60 votes, 19.0%

Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 1862, 455 pages

40 votes, 12.7%

A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy 1873, 374 pages

37 votes, 11.7%

The Peony Pavilion: Mudan ting by Tang Xianzu 1598, 343 pages

12 votes, 3.8%

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