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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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Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s books

Average rating: 3.75 · 48,168 ratings · 4,984 reviews · 991 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lady Audley's Secret 3.78 avg rating — 26,240 ratings — published 1862 — 286 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 3.63 avg rating — 6,673 ratings — published 1894 — 49 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 — 1,845 ratings — published 1864 — 123 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) 3.75 avg rating — 1,736 ratings — published 1863 — 77 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 — 799 ratings — published 1860 — 65 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 3.82 avg rating — 484 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 3.43 avg rating — 474 ratings — published 1869 — 21 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 3.56 avg rating — 347 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 3.75 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 1864 — 129 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 — 174 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

54 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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Polls

April 2018 Old School Poll

The Art of War by Sun Tzu -500, 273 pages

49 votes, 14.8%

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 1883, 262 pages

48 votes, 14.5%

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 1866, 679 pages

29 votes, 8.7%

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 1886, 445 pages

28 votes, 8.4%

Silas Marner by George Eliot 1861, 262 pages

26 votes, 7.8%

The Misanthrope by Molière 1666, 64 pages

25 votes, 7.5%

Germinal by Émile Zola 1895, 592 pages

22 votes, 6.6%

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 1860, 579 pages

19 votes, 5.7%

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

18 votes, 5.4%

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown 1390, 144 pages

18 votes, 5.4%

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell 1848, 437 pages

16 votes, 4.8%

Confessions by Augustine of Hippo 397, 341 pages

8 votes, 2.4%

Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis 1880, 236 pages

8 votes, 2.4%

Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane 1894, 272 pages

7 votes, 2.1%

Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas 1845, 542 pages

6 votes, 1.8%

The Gilded Age by Mark Twain 1873, 528 pages

5 votes, 1.5%

332 total votes

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