In the later 1870s MEB
and John Maxwell
built a country home in the New Forest, in the village of Bank (or Annesley Bank).
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A small scandal erupted in 1867 when the Athenæum pointed out that MEB
's Nobody's Daughter; or, The Ballad-Singer of Wapping, was in fact the same as the previously serialised Diavola; or, The Woman's...
Textual Production
Anna Maria Hall
This was the date of the first number of John Maxwell
's St. James's Magazine, which appeared under the editorship of AMH
.
Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997.
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
John Maxwell
began publishing the monthly Belgravia: A London Magazine, primarily to include the work of his partner Mary Elizabeth Braddon
: she was its editor for ten years, and wrote most of its fiction.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. “Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Brief Chronology”. Aurora Floyd, edited by Richard Nemesvari and Lisa Surridge, Broadview, 1998.
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Katharine S. Macquoid
KSM
first reached print with a short story in a recently-launched periodical, The Welcome Guest, A Magazine for All.
Her publications here and later in Temple Bar and Belgravia magazines suggest a sustained connection...
Travel
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
In June of 1874 MEB
and John Maxwell
went on a two-week tour of Ireland.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
248, 250-1
Wealth and Poverty
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
After Maxwell
retired in 1887, his publishing house still covered their household expenses, and MEB
saved all of her substantial earnings from her writing. In 1893 she purchased yet another house near her family's estate...
Wealth and Poverty
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
She left a remarkably large estate for a Victorian woman writer. Despite the high style in which she lived, she was reportedly able from early in her career to save her literary earnings, since money...