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MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON (1837— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 369 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARY See also:ELIZABETH See also:BRADDON (1837— )  , 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 . She began at an See also:early See also:age to contribute to See also:periodicals, and in 1861 produced her first novel, The Trail of the See also:Serpent . 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 See also:verse, deserving more See also:notice than it has received . In 1862 her reputation as a novelist was made by a favourable See also:review in The Times of See also:Lady See also:Audley's See also:Secret . See also:Aurora See also:Floyd, a novel with a strong See also:affinity to Madame Bovary, followed, and achieved equal success . 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 . They give, indeed, the See also:great See also:body of readers of fiction exactly what they require; melodramatic in See also:plot and See also:character, conventional in their views of See also:life, they are yet distinguished by constructive skill and opulence of invention . For a considerable See also:time See also:Miss Braddon conducted Belgravia, in which several of her novels appeared . In 1874 she married Mr John See also:Maxwell, publisher, her son, W . B . Maxwell, after-wards becoming known as a See also:clever novelist and newspaper correspondent .

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