Mary Elizabeth Braddon
English author (1835-1915) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 79
Mary Elizabeth Braddon was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era. She is best known for her 1862 novel Lady Audley's Secret, which is considered one of the foundational examples of sensation fiction.
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She is known for her focus on bigamous relationships in her novels, as well as her illegitimate marriage to John Maxwell.