Strangers and Pilgrims

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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410 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1871

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I started this book three times and quit it the first two times after one or two chapters, because I could not stand the arrogant, vain, self-absorbed Elizabeth, the main female lead. When I picked it up again last week, I was determined to read it through, because of a great review. While Elizabeth harbored these qualities more or less through the whole book, her life was very interesting. Her pride ended up causing her much heartache (doesn’t it do that to all of us!), but her softer side came out from time to time, and nearly every single character had more or less glaring personality faults as well, so that is actually realistic. I love that the culture of the day, in which this was written, were familiar with many Bible characters and verses that were inadvertently referred to on occasion.

[Angie Bates · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow, what a great book to reach my reading challenge goal on. I wonder why this author wasn't as well known to me as Austen, Trollope or Bronte. Up until the last moment of this book, I thought it would have a different effect on me because of it’s different style from her more gothic type books, but she took my breathe away and made me tear up in either style. She breaks your heart and then makes you glad that she broke it. More from this lady is headed my way for sure.