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
Portrait of Mary Elizabeth Braddon by William Powell Frith, 1865
Tomb of Mary Elizabeth Maxwell in Richmond Cemetery
Sensation novel
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The sensation novel, also sensation fiction, was a literary genre of fiction that achieved its peak popularity in Great Britain from the mid-1850s to the 1890s, centring on taboo material that was sho
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
…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 sensation fiction. She is known for her focus on bigamous relationships in her novels, as well as her illegitimate marriage to John Maxwell. Aside from writing, Braddon…
Captioned "The Novelist who invented Sensation", caricature of Wilkie Collins in Vanity Fair, 3 February 1872