MARY

See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• ELIZABETH, SAINT (1207-1231)

ELIZABETH

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• MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON (1837— )

BRADDON (1837— )  , English novelist, daughter of Henry Braddon, solicitor, of Skirdon Lodge, Cornwall, and sister of Sir Edward Braddon, prime minister of Tasmania, was born in London in 1837 . She began at an early age to contribute to periodicals, and in 1861 produced her first novel, The Trail of the Serpent . In the same year appeared Garibaldi, accompanied by Olivia, and other poems, chiefly narrative, a volume of extremely spirited verse, deserving more notice than it has received . In 1862 her reputation as a novelist was made by a favourable review in The Times of Lady Audley's Secret . Aurora Floyd, a novel with a strong affinity to Madame Bovary, followed, and achieved equal success . Its immediate successors, Eleanor's Victory, John Marchmont's Legacy, Henry Dunbar, remain with her former works the best-known of her novels, but all her numerous books have found a large and appreciative public . They give, indeed, the great body of readers of fiction exactly what they require; melodramatic in plot and character, conventional in their views of life, they are yet distinguished by constructive skill and opulence of invention . For a considerable time Miss Braddon conducted Belgravia, in which several of her novels appeared . In 1874 she married Mr John Maxwell, publisher, her son, W . B . Maxwell, after-wards becoming known as a clever novelist and newspaper correspondent .