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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: 3.76 · 50,477 ratings · 5,376 reviews · 1,093 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lady Audley's Secret 3.79 avg rating — 27,310 ratings — published 1862 — 174 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 — 6,923 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 — 1,880 ratings — published 1864	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) 3.75 avg rating — 1,817 ratings — published 1863 — 142 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 — 824 ratings — published 1860 — 70 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 3.81 avg rating — 528 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 — 540 ratings — published 1869 — 34 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 Cold Embrace 3.57 avg rating — 381 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 3.78 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1864 — 147 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 3.66 avg rating — 188 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

157 likes

“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

55 likes

“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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December 2022 Short Story/Novella Poll

Before the Party by W. Somerset Maugham, 26 pages, 1922

45 votes, 25.6%

A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka, 84 pages, 1924

44 votes, 25.0%

The Christmas Hirelings by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 101 pages, 1896

30 votes, 17.0%

The Christmas Truce by Robert Graves, 16 pages, 1962

27 votes, 15.3%

The Murder of a Buttercup, as found in, The Ballerina and the Body by Alfred Döblin

12 votes, 6.8%

So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ

11 votes, 6.3%

Tonka And Other Stories Title Story Only by Robert Musil, 65 pages, 1924

7 votes, 4.0%

176 total votes

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