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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 · 49,640 ratings · 5,230 reviews · 1,058 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lady Audley's Secret 3.79 avg rating — 26,875 ratings — published 1862 — 676 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 — 6,913 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 — 1,859 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) 3.75 avg rating — 1,765 ratings — published 1863	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 — 817 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 3.81 avg rating — 509 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 — 511 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 3.56 avg rating — 367 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 — 235 ratings — published 1864 — 130 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 — 184 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

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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Polls

May 2017 Old School Classic Poll

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, 1826, 410 pages

61 votes, 18.5%

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 1842, 512 pages

59 votes, 17.9%

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 1320, 798 pages

49 votes, 14.8%

Silas Marner by George Eliot, 1861, 248 pages

37 votes, 11.2%

The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas, 1850, 246 pages

31 votes, 9.4%

Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1862, 490 pages

26 votes, 7.9%

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, 1861, 176 pages

21 votes, 6.4%

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, 1885, 264 pages

16 votes, 4.8%

Germinal by Émile Zola, 1885, 592 pages

16 votes, 4.8%

Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, 1834, 370 pages

12 votes, 3.6%

The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner, 1883, 304 pages

2 votes, 0.6%

330 total votes

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