CHAPTER I.
Penelope.
People dined earlier forty years ago than they do
now. Even that salt of the earth, the elect of
society, represented by that little great world which
lies between the narro...
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon, later Mrs. John Maxwell, is still best known as "the author of Lady Audley's Secret ," to quote the standard publisher's rubric that followed her around on title pages througho...
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon, a popular and successful Victorian novelist, mounted an audacious challenge to the codes of literary propriety. A major force in the development of the modern crime novel, she ...
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On 9 November 1865 the young Henry James published an essay in The Nation titled "Miss Braddon." The occasion was the runaway success of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's fifth novel, Aurora Floyd (1863). Jame...
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Phantom Fortune, a Novel
Mary Elizabeth Braddon