Robert Lee Wolff

Later in life, she did Latin translation with her children and taught herself some Greek, in hopes, according to biographer and critic Robert Lee Wolff , of remedying the deficiency in her education that caused...

While appearing on stage MEB must have found it a challenge to protect herself from unwanted sexual attentions. She attracted the attention, apparently without meeting disapproval from her mother, of newspaper proprietor Charles Bray (who...

Robert Lee Wolff considers this, with Joshua Haggard's Daughter, one of her two masterpieces.

The Athenæum praised MEB 's command of English and avoidance of sensationalism in this work. Her biographer Robert Lee Wolff judged it to be the best of all her sensation novels.

Critic Robert Lee Wolff places this among MEB 's best works for its psychological delicacy and stylistic economy and its bold treatment of physical love.

Margaret Oliphant 's critique of the sensation novel in 1867 relied heavily on attacking MEB 's reputation. The best she would say was that some of Braddon's works deserved some of their success. Braddon's sole...

MAW 's meticulous character study and tragic love story is sometimes considered her best novel. It was positively received by George Meredith , Sir J. M. Barrie , and Henry James. James wrote to her...

This book sold well, and remains ML 's most successful novel. Some initial reviews were favourable, but most afforded Hogan, M.P. at best lukewarm praise. The Protestant, Unionist Dublin University Magazine declared that though...

A New York edition from Harper, compressing three volumes to one, appeared the following year. A Garland facsimile appeared in 1979 in a series on Ireland and Irish politics, with an introduction by Robert Lee Wolff

From late 1861 MEB published in her future husband John Maxwell 's Temple Bar, edited by George Augustus Sala , a periodical which aimed to compete with the prestigious Cornhill Magazine. In...

She had worked on this novel both at Pégomas near Cannes in the South of France and at her home in Kensington. For some reason she found none of her usual pleasure in composition...

A subplot excised in revision as Henry Dunbar was recycled into the short story Lost and Found: this removed the bigamy and blackmail from the novel. This time the novel in book form was...

A new edition of Hogan, M.P. appeared from Macmillan in 1881 (reissued in 1883), and a New York edition from G. Munro in 1882. The novel was thereafter out of print until Garland Publishing reprinted...

But despite reminiscence of other MEB fiction—emphasis on a providential Hand guiding the action, reference to a private lunatic asylum as a living tomb— the novel is a considerable drop in quality from...

Critic Robert Lee Wolff sees MEB in her novels of the 1870s as satirizing the hypocrisy of middle-class Low-church values while seeming to espouse them, in part because she was trying to compete with...