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