Whether you like or despise Mary Elizabeth Braddon's work, her great success lay in the telling of a story. Her work may be derivative (Wilkie Collins leaps to mind) melodramatic, character driven, cliché-ridden, but however weak the plot, however many coincidences are introduced as an alternative t

Not her best but pretty fun

Braddon is my current fixation based on how varied and outright weird her novels are, and what they say about the anxieties of late Victorian gentry. An amazing set up that like most of Braddon's novels, grows weaker toward the end. Some nice characterization in the proud, ambitious, and self defeat

I thought this was a well-written story with multiple overlapping plots, keeping my attention to the end. The shocking decadence of "the season" in London (is that what they got up to???) and double standards of the upper classes seem to be a deliberate theme through the book. It is a bit let down b

This book tells the love stories of two sisters and their grandmother, and how all three stories are intertwined. Two aspects I love about Braddon’s writing: we get to follow her characters through several different phases of their lives, and she lets us guess many of the story’s secrets early on, b

Engrossing Victorian novel

This is a novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, a popular novelist in the mid to late nineteenth century. It was first published in 1883. She was known for her "sensation novels," the most famous of which, "Lady Audley's Secret," is still read today. Most of her other novels (th

Highly entertaining Victorian pulp novel. Not as well crafted as some of ME Braddon's other works but enjoyable nonetheless.