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Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835 – 1915)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born in 1835 in Soho, London, the youngest child of a solicitor.
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Her parents’ marriage broke down due to her father’s financial irresponsibility, and she moved to the Sussex coast with her mother.
At the age of 22 she began an acting career in order to earn reasonable income, and also started writing short fiction and poetry.
By 1861 she was working as an editorial assistant to the publisher John Maxwell, and they soon became lovers. Maxwell was married with five children, and his wife was confined in a Dublin mental institution. It was the subject of much controversy, therefore, when Braddon moved in with Maxwell as his common-law wife and step mother to his children.
When criticising her sensation novels, Mrs Oliphant commented archly that she “knew too much about bigamy for her own good.”
In 1861, Maxwell’s magazine Robin Goodfellow began serialising Lady Audley’s Secret, the first of Braddon’s two