opfbike.blogg.se

The next stage of Mary's life was just as untraditional as her childhood. Braddon was taught by her mother or by a governess. Despite her unusual upbringing, Mary's mother made sure she had a decent education, allowing her to begin to write stories at the young age of 11. Mary's childhood was untraditional-as a child of a single mother, she and her siblings moved frequently, and Fanny had to rely on the charity of family members to maintain a household. Mary became very close with her mother, who remained her confidant until her death in 1868. Braddon's father was a solicitor who had financial issues Henry separated from his wife and children when Mary was five, leaving her a child in a single parent family. Mary had two older siblings, Edward and Margaret. She had a turbulent childhood as the youngest child in a financially distraught family. Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born to Fanny White and Henry Braddon on October 4, 1835. Hometown: London, England The Life of Mary Elizabeth Braddon Page contributors: Samantha Bosch, Chelsea Burk, Bailey Poolman, Rebecca Studtmann and Ashwina Upreti Kindred Hands: Letters on Writing by British and American Women Authors, 1865-1935. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006.

Sensation fiction was thought of as unsuitable for people, young women in particular, to read because of the cliff-hangers, the suspense, and the tingling sensation that accompanies a combined emotional and mental experience of reading a story that deals with the extraordinary occurring in the mundane.Ĭognard-Black, Jennifer Macleod Walls, Elizabeth. Ironically, these seemingly unrealistic topics are placed in very real settings, such as a garden, an inn, or a normal household. Some of the themes common in sensation fiction are women abandoning their children, domestic abuse, crime, murder, adultery, and bigamy. Braddon's novel was widely abused despite its popularity sensation fiction was not considered good literature because it was not overtly moralistic or realistic. The novel was published in 1862, and in 1865 Henry James called Braddon "the founder of the sensation novel". Lady Audley's Secret is thought of as one of the first sensation fiction novels.

"You have conquered-a MADWOMAN!"* Sensation Fiction