Mary Elizabeth Braddon



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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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born
in London, The United Kingdom
October 04, 1835

died
February 04, 1915

gender
female

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.


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Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Books

Average rating: 3.76 · 7,440 ratings · 603 reviews · 216 distinct works · Similar authors
Lady Audley's Secret
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 5,367 ratings — published 1862 — 80 editions
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The Doctor's Wife
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3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 1864 — 10 editions
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Aurora Floyd
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 1863 — 15 editions
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The Trail of the Serpent
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3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1860 — 5 editions
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John Marchmont's Legacy
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1864 — 5 editions
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Good Lady Ducayne
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions
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Wyllard's Weird
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1885 — 7 editions
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The Cold Embrace and Other ...
3.32 of 5 stars 3.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
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Vixen
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1879 — 10 editions
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Quotes by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“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
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“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: inspirational, observant
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