Книга: Mary Elizabeth Braddon «Lady Audley's Secret»
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Производитель: "OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS" Серия: "s Classics" Lady Audley's Secret (1862) subtly undermined the Victorian myth that female self-assertion was a form of insanity. At the same time it established the prolific Mary Elizabeth Braddon as a leading sensation novelist, a rival to the master of the genre, Wilkie Collins. Flouting the Victorian convention of the blue-eyed wax-doll heroine, Braddon presented a sexually attractive woman with great depth and complexity of character: a woman, as one contemporary critic put it, high-strung... full of passion, purpose, and movement - very liable to error . This novel can now be seen as an anticipation of Ibsen's great dramas, and as an unabashed bid for freedom from the constraints of Victorian womanhood. This edition includes: introduction; textual note; bibliography chronology; explanatory notes. Edited with an introduction and notes by David Skilton. ISBN:978-0-19-953724-2 Издательство: "OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS" (2008)
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 – 4 February 1915) was a British Victorian era popular novelist. She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret.
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Life
Born in London in England, Braddon was privately educated and worked as an actress for three years in order to be able to support herself and her mother Fanny, who had separated from her father Henry in 1840, when Mary was just three. When Mary was ten years old, her brother Edward Braddon left for India and later Australia, where he would become Premier of Tasmania.
In 1860, Braddon met John Maxwell, a publisher of periodicals, whom she started living with in 1861. However, Maxwell was married with five children and his wife was living in an asylum in Ireland. Mary 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, including the novelist William Babington Maxwell.
Braddon was an extremely prolific writer, producing more than 80 novels with very inventive plots. The most famous one is Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which won her recognition and fortune as well. The novel has been in print ever since, and has been dramatised and filmed several times.
Braddon also founded Belgravia Magazine (1866), which presented readers with serialised sensation novels, poems, travel narratives, and biographies, as well as essays on fashion, history, science. The magazine was accompanied by lavish illustrations and offered readers a source of literature at an affordable cost. She also edited Temple Bar Magazine. Braddon's legacy is tied to the sensation fiction of the 1860s.
She died on 4 February 1915 in Richmond, Surrey, England and is interred there in Richmond Cemetery. Her home had been Lichfield House in the centre of town; it was replaced by a block of flats in 1936, Lichfield Court, now listed. She has a plaque in Richmond Parish church which just calls her 'Miss Braddon' and a number of streets in the area are named after characters in her novels; her husband was a property developer in the area.
Partial bibliography
Novels
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Collections
- Ralph the Bailiff and Other Tales (1862)
Theatre
- Griselda (1873)
References
Notes
Bibliography
- Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. pp. 58.
- Diamond, Michael. Victorian Sensation. London: Anthem (2003) ISBN 1-84331-150-X, pp. 191–192
External links
- Victorian novelists
- 1837 births
- 1915 deaths
- People from London
- British people of Cornish descent
- English novelists
- Victorian women writers
- Women novelists
- Women of the Victorian era
- English women writers
- 19th-century women writers
- 20th-century women writers
- Works originally published in Once A Week (magazine)
Источник: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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