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Lady Audley's Secret (1862)
Perhaps Braddon's most famous novel, and the one that launched her writing career. It's been filmed four times, most recently in 2000; click the DVD cover image just below Braddon's image above to check it out.
- at BlackMask: HTML or PDF
- at Victorian Women Writers Project: Volume 1 (382K), Volume 2 (345K), Volume 3 (313K) -- dramatic adaptation of Lady Audley's Secret by C. H. Hazelwood. [1863] (77K) [Gaslight] "The Shadow in the Corner" First published in All the Year 'Round in 1879. Victorian rationalism meets...well, something it has a hard time understanding, and that's before the ghost shows up....
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[Mary Braddon and Sensation Fiction]
A substantial discussion of Braddon and her involvement in the tradition of sensation literature. [A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection, Michael E. Grost]
Review of The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon by Jennifer Carnell. Reviewed by Mark Knight [New Books in 19th Century Studies, U Southern California]
Review of Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context, ed. Marlene Tromp et al (SUNY Press, 1999) Reviewed by Carolyn Oulton [New Books in 19th Century Studies, U Southern California]
"The Trail of the Serpent" Essay by Braddon in which she discusses her early literary efforts. [1897] (20K) [Gaslight]
"Sensation Novels" A negative assessment of sensation fiction -- "sensation novels must be recognised as a great fact in the literature of the day, and a fact whose significance is by no means of an agreeable kind" -- from an 1863 review article in the British magazine Quarterly Review. [Karen Droisen, U Nevada - Las Vegas]
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