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Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 – 4 February 1915) was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era. [1] She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret , which has also been dramatised and filmed several times.
Richard and Judy Book Club display at W.H. Smith, Enfield. The following is a list of books from the Richard & Judy Book Club, featured on the television chat show. The show was cancelled in 2009, but since 2010 the lists have been continued by the Richard and Judy Book Club, a website run in conjunction with retailer W. H. Smith.
The Trail of the Serpent is the first sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, first published in 1861 as Three Times Dead; or, The Secret of the Heath.The story concerns the schemes of the orphan Jabez North to acquire an aristocratic fortune, and the efforts of Richard Marwood, aided by his friends, to prove his innocence in the murder of his uncle.
The Cloven Foot is an 1879 novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon that combines aspects of the sensation novel and detective novel, and may even be considered an early legal thriller. Plot summary [ edit ]
Robert is disappointed when Hannah refuses to be his mistress, realizing Daniel is the love of her life. She returns to court and is welcomed by Queen Mary and Princess Elizabeth. Mary asks her to use her gift to see if Elizabeth will keep England in the true faith. Hannah tells her that Elizabeth won't, but she will be a better queen than a woman.
The book opens in the autumn of 1558, just after the death of Mary I of England, and bells are heralding the fact that Mary's half-sister, Elizabeth, is now queen.The book is told from four main perspectives: Elizabeth I's; William Cecil's, the queen's main advisor; Robert Dudley, the queen's favourite; and Amy Robsart's, who is Robert Dudley's wife.
Wives and Daughters, An Every-Day Story is a novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. It was partly written whilst Gaskell was staying with the salon hostess Mary Elizabeth Mohl at her home on the Rue de Bac in Paris. [1]
Falkner is the only one of Shelley's novels in which the heroine's agenda triumphs. [2] In critic Kate Ferguson Ellis's view, the novel's resolution proposes that when female values triumph over violent and destructive masculinity, men will be freed to express the "compassion, sympathy, and generosity" of their better natures.