Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Born in London in England, Braddon was privately educated and worked as an actress for three years in order to able to support herself and her mother. She met John Maxwell[?], a publisher of periodicals, in 1860. However, Maxwell was married with five children and his wife was insane. She had acted as the stepmother of the children till 1874, when Maxwell's wife died, and they could get married. She had six children by him.

Ms. Braddon was an extremely prolific writer, producing some 75 novels with very inventive plots. The most famous one is her first novel, Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which won her recognition and fortune as well. The novel has been in print ever since, and has been dramatized and filmed several times.

She died on February 4, 1915 in Richmond, Surrey[?], England and is interred there in the Richmond Cemetery.

Partial bibliography:

• The Octoroon[?] (1861)
• The Black Band[?] (1861)
• Lady Audley's Secret (1862)
• Aurora Floyd[?] 1863
• Eleanor's Victory[?] 1863
• Henry Dunbar: the Story of an Outcast[?] 1864
• Circe 1867
• Dead-Sea Fruit[?] 1868
• Fenton's Quest[?] 1871
• To the Bitter End[?] 1872
• Publicans and Sinners[?] 1873
• Lost For Love[?] 1874
• Hostages to Fortune[?] 1875
• An Open Verdict[?] 1878
• The Cloven Foot[?] 1879
• Vixen[?] 1879
• Asphodel 1881
• Phantom Fortune[?] 1883
• Ishmael. A Novel[?] 1884
• Cut by the County[?] 1887
• The Fatal Three[?] 1888
• One Life, One Love[?] 1890
• The World, the Flesh and the Devil[?] 1891
• The Venetians[?] 1892
• The Christmas Hirelings[?] 1894
• Sons of Fire[?] 1895
• Rough Justice[?] 1898
• His Darling Sin[?] 1899
• The Infidel[?] 1900
• Dead Love Has Chains[?] 1907
• During Her Majesty's Pleasure[?] 1908