Lichfield Court
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Lichfield Court, on Sheen Road in Richmond, London, consists of two Grade II listed purpose-built blocks of flats. Designed by Bertram Carter and built in fine Streamline Moderne style, it was complet
Courtyard of Lichfield Court
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era. She is best known for her 1862 novel Lady Audley's Secret, which is considered one of the foundational examples of sensatio
Lichfield Court
…the London residence of the Bishop of Lichfield. Wealthy sugar factor Henry Lascelles (1690–1753) bought the house and died there by suicide. Novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915), lived there from before 1874 until her death. The house was described in 1907 as a "grand old red brick building with a beautiful formal…
Portrait of Mary Elizabeth Braddon by William Powell Frith, 1865
Tomb of Mary Elizabeth Maxwell in Richmond Cemetery