M. E. Braddon
1835–1915
Biography
Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a widely read English novelist of the Victorian age. She was born on 4 October 1835 and died on 4 February 1915. To keep herself and her mother, she worked as an actress for about eight years before she became a successful writer. She later worked as a magazine editor and publisher, and in 1866 she founded the magazine Belgravia.
She is best remembered for Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which is counted among the first and most important examples of sensation fiction, a Victorian genre built on hidden pasts, crime and domestic scandal. Her novels often turn on bigamy and on marriages and identities that are not what they appear to be, and many of them were later adapted for the stage.
The Mary Elizabeth Braddon Association was set up in 2014 to honour her life and work. The site holds Lady Audley's Secret, which is credited to her here under the name M. E. Braddon. Readers who want to go further should use the English article, which covers her acting and publishing as well as her novels.
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Books
Lady Audley's Secret
by M. E. Braddon
Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published on 1 October 1862. It was Braddon's most successful and well-known novel. Critic John Sutherland (1989) described the work as "the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels". The plot…
Summary from Wikipedia: Lady Audley's Secret (CC BY-SA 4.0)