Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born in London. She was four years old when her father left his family. In 1857, she went on the stage to support her mother and herself. In 1874, she married John Maxwell a London publisher of periodicals.
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born in London. She was four years old when her father left his family. In 1857, she went on the stage to support her mother and herself. In 1874, she married John Maxwell a London publisher of periodicals. |
Titles and year of publication:
| 1) The Trail of the Serpent; or, The Secret of the Heath (US Title: Three Times Dead; or, The Secret of the Heath [1864]) | 1861 |
| 2) The Captain of the Vulture (US Title: Darrell Markham; or, The Captain of the Vulture [1863]) | 1862 |
| 3) Lady Audley's Secret | 1862 |
| 4) The Lady Lisle | 1862 |
| 5) Ralph the Bailiff and other tales (short stories) (US Title: Dudley Carleon [1864]) | 1862 |
| 6) Aurora Floyd | 1863 |
| 7) Eleanor's Victory | 1863 |
| 8) John Marchmont's Legacy | 1863 |
| 9) The Doctor's Wife | 1864 |
| 10) Henry Dunbar; the Story of an Outcast (US Title: The Outcast; or, The Brand of Society [1864]) | 1864 |
| 11) The Lawyer's Secret | 1864 |
| 12) Only a Clod | 1865 |
| 13) Sir Jasper's Tenant | 1865 |
| 14) The Black Band; or, The Mysteries of Midnight (US Title: What Is the Mystery? [1866]) | 1866 |
| 15) The Lady's Mile | 1866 |
| 16) Birds of Prey | 1867 |
| 17) Run to Earth (US Title: Diavola; or, Nobody's Daughter [1867]) | 1867 |
| 18) Rupert Godwin | 1867 |
| 19) Charlotte's Inheritance | 1868 |
| 20) Dead Sea Fruit | 1868 |
| 21) The White Phantom | 1868 |
| 22) The Factory Girl; or, All Is Not Gold That Glitters | 1869 |
| 23) The Octoroon; or, The Lily of Louisiana | 1869 |
| 24) Oscar Bertrand | 1869 |
| 25) Fenton's Quest | 1871 |
| 26) The Lovels of Arden | 1871 |
| 27) Robert Ainsleigh | 1872 |
| 28) To the Bitter End | 1872 |
| 29) Lucius Davoren; or, Publicans and Sinners (US Title: Publicans and Sinners; or, Lucius Davoren [1874]) | 1873 |
| 30) Milly Darrell and other tales (short stories) (Also published as: Meeting Her Fate [1881]) | 1873 |
| 31) Strangers and Pilgrims | 1873 |
| 32) Lost for Love | 1874 |
| 33) Taken at the Flood | 1874 |
| 34) Hostages to Fortune | 1875 |
| 35) A Strange World | 1875 |
| 36) Dead Men's Shoes | 1876 |
| 37) Joshua Haggard's Daughter | 1876 |
| 38) My Sister's Confession and other stories (short stories) | 1876 |
| 39) In Great Waters (short stories) | 1877 |
| 40) Weavers and Weft, and other tales (short stories) | 1877 |
| 41) Leighton Grange; or, Who Killed Edith Woodville? (Also published as: The Mystery of Leighton Grange [1878]) | 1878 |
| 42) An Open Verdict | 1878 |
| 43) The Cloven Foot | 1879 |
| 44) George Caulfield's Journey | 1879 |
| 45) Shadow in the Corner (short stories) (Also published as: Figure in the Corner and other stories [1881]) | 1879 |
| 46) Vixen | 1879 |
| 47) Just As I Am | 1880 |
| 48) The Missing Witness (play) | 1880 |
| 49) The Story of Barbara (US Title: Barbara; or, Splendid Misery [1880]) | 1880 |
| 50) Asphodel | 1881 |
| 51) His Secret | 1881 |
| 52) Wages of Sin | 1881 |
| 53) Dross; or, The Root of Evil (play) | 1882 |
| 54) Flower and Weed, and other tales (short stories) | 1882 |
| 55) Great Journey and other stories (short stories) | 1882 |
| 56) Mount Royal | 1882 |
| 57) The Golden Calf | 1883 |
| 58) Married in Haste | 1883 |
| 59) Phantom Fortune | 1883 |
| 60) Under the Red Flag (short stories) (Also published as: Under the Red Flag and other tales [1886]) | 1883 |
| 61) Ishmael (Also published as: An Ishmaelite [1884]) | 1884 |
| 62) The Fatal Marriage; or, The Shadow in the Corner | 1885 |
| 63) Jasper Dane's Secret | 1885 |
| 64) One Thing Needful, and Cut by the County (Also published as: Penalty of Fate; or, The One Thing Needful [1886]) | 1885 |
| 65) Only a Woman | 1885 |
| 66) Wyllard's Weird | 1885 |
| 67) The Little Woman in Black | 1886 |
| 68) Mohawks | 1886 |
| 69) Like and Unlike | 1887 |
| 70) The Fatal Three | 1888 |
| 71) The Day Will Come | 1889 |
| 72) Whose Was the Hand? | 1889 |
| 73) One Life, One Love | 1890 |
| 74) Gerard; or, The World, the Flesh and the Devil (US Title: The World, the Flesh, and the Devil [1891]) | 1891 |
| 75) The Venetians | 1892 |
| 76) All Along the River (short stories) | 1893 |
| 77) The Christmas Hirelings | 1894 |
| 78) Thou Art the Man | 1894 |
| 79) Sons of Fire | 1895 |
| 80) London Pride; or, When the World Was Younger (US Title: When the World Was Younger [1897]) | 1896 |
| 81) Under Love's Rule | 1897 |
| 82) In High Places | 1898 |
| 83) Rough Justice | 1898 |
| 84) His Darling Sin | 1899 |
| 85) The Infidel | 1900 |
| 86) The Conflict | 1903 |
| 87) A Lost Eden | 1904 |
| 88) The Rose of Life | 1905 |
| 89) The White House | 1906 |
| 90) Dead Love Has Chains | 1907 |
| 91) Her Convict | 1907 |
| 92) During Her Majesty's Pleasure | 1908 |
| 93) Our Adversary | 1909 |
| 94) Beyond These Voices | 1910 |
| 95) The Green Curtain | 1911 |
| 96) Miranda | 1913 |
| 97) Mary | 1916 |