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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.
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.
Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published on 26 May 1862. [1] It was Braddon's most successful and well-known novel. Critic John Sutherland (1989) described the work as "the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels". [1]
Sensation fiction is commonly seen to have emerged as a definable genre in the wake of three novels: Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White (1860); Mrs. Henry Wood's East Lynne (1861); and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862). [6]
Various of her writings appeared in Belgravia, a magazine edited by her friend, the novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, [1] whom she met through Braddon's husband, Buisson's publisher John Maxwell. In this were posthumously published her six ghost stories: "My Aunt's Pearl Ring" (1867), "A Story Told in a Church" (1867), "The Ghost's Summons ...
It was an adaptation of the 1862 novel Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Plot. Sir Michael Audley marries a younger woman. She throws her first husband ...
Lady Audley's Secret is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Marshall Farnum and starring Theda Bara, Riley Hatch and Clifford Bruce.It was an adaptation of the 1862 British novel Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. [1]
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 ]