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This is the first new literary critical biography of Mary Elizabeth Braddon for over twenty years, and its predecessor, Robert Lee Wolff's Sensational Victorian, has never been reprinted and is not easy to obtain. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon concentrates on sources not available to Wolff, and in doing so examines the entire eight years of her career as an actress in the 1850s (Wolff believed it to have been only three years in duration), her earliest writing in the 1850s, her rise to fame as an equal of Wilkie Collins at the height of the controversy over sensation fiction in the 1860s, her relationship with the publisher John Maxwell, the many influences on her work, and the respect she eventually earned in the literary world. Each chapter is a blend of biography and literary criticism. The book also includes two large appendices, the first mapping Braddon's entire career as an actress, listing the companies she acted with in London and the provinces, the plays she acted in, and the roles she played. The second appendix provides a new bibliography of her work, listing the first editions and serialisations of her ninety novels, short stories, plays, poems and essays; importantly, this includes details of the following previously unrecorded works: 1 opera, 19 short stories, 4 songs, 46 essays, 1 play, and 27 poems. The book reproduces the entire text of 15 of her earliest poems, the first of Braddon's work to be published, never before recorded or republished, which were written for provincial newspapers while she was an actress. This book is an important resource, providing critical analysis for the undergraduate, and research information for the graduate and professor which is not available from any other source.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1837-1915) --- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1837-1915) --- Biographie --- Critique et interprétation --- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1837-1915) --- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1837-1915) --- Biographie --- Critique et interprétation

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Poor laws -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800 --- Braddon

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Psychological fiction, English --- Women and literature --- Domestic fiction, English --- Sensationalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Braddon, M. E. --- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, --- Breddon, --- Braddon, --- Maxwell, M. E. --- Maxwell, Mary Elizabeth, --- Maxwell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, --- White, Babington, --- Брэддон, Мэри Элизабет, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Engelse letterkunde --- Letterkunde --- Littérature --- Littérature anglaise --- 82 (Braddon, R. 7.03 = 393)

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This book explores the ways in which the two leading sensation authors of the 1860s, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, engaged with nineteenth-century ideas about personality formation and the extent to which it can be influenced either by the subject or by others. Innovative readings of seven sensation novels explore how they employ and challenge Victorian theories of heredity, degeneration, inherent constitution, education, upbringing and social circumstance. Far from presenting a reductive depiction of 'nature' versus 'nurture', Braddon and Collins show the creation of character to be a complex interplay of internal and external factors. Drawing on material ranging from medical textbooks, to sociological treatises, to popular periodicals, Creating character shows how sensation authors situated themselves at the intersections of established and developing, conservative and radical, learned and sensationalist thought about how identity could be made and modified.

English fiction --- History and criticism. --- Braddon, M. E. --- Collins, Wilkie, --- Collins, William Wilkie, --- Collins, William Wilkie --- Kollinz, Uilki, --- Collins, W., --- Collins, W. Wilkie, --- Коллинз, Уилки, --- קולינס, וילקי, --- 柯林斯威尔基, --- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, --- Breddon, --- Braddon, --- Maxwell, M. E. --- Maxwell, Mary Elizabeth, --- Maxwell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, --- White, Babington, --- Брэддон, Мэри Элизабет, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Personality in literature. --- English fiction. --- Characters and characteristics in literature. --- Sensationsroman --- Literatur --- Identitätsfindung --- Englisch --- English literature --- Character sketches --- Characterization (Literature) --- Literary characters --- Literary portraits --- Portraits, Literary --- History and criticism --- Collins, Wilkie --- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth --- Literature --- Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900 --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General --- Ireland --- Degeneration. --- Education. --- Heredity. --- Insanity. --- Mary Elizabeth Braddon. --- Responsibility. --- Self-Determinism. --- Sensation novels. --- Wilkie Collins. --- Willpower.