Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a popular Victorian British novelist best known for her novel Lady Audrys Secret. She was a prolific novelist producing over 75 novels. She founded Belgravia Magazine in1866, which included serialized sensation novels, poems, travel narratives, and biographies, as well as essays on fashion, history, and science. London Pride: or When the World Was Younger is a historical novel. The story begins, "A rainy summer, and a mild rainy autumn had been followed by the hardest frost this generation had ever known. The Thames was frozen over, and tempestuous winds had...

3 Novels, 5 Novelettes and 23 short stories in four volumes of ghost, mystery and horror tales
Lovers of the Victorian fiction of Wilkie Collins know that to discover his female counterpart they need look no further than the works of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. She was a prolific author of the kind of dark melodrama much loved by her contemporary audience and her most renowned work, 'Lady Audley's Secret, ' has been often dramatised, filmed and, indeed, has never been out of print from the time of its original publication. Never was the accolade, 'The Queen of Sensation' so well deserved as...

3 Novels, 5 Novelettes and 23 short stories in four volumes of ghost, mystery and horror tales
Lovers of the Victorian fiction of Wilkie Collins know that to discover his female counterpart they need look no further than the works of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. She was a prolific author of the kind of dark melodrama much loved by her contemporary audience and her most renowned work, 'Lady Audley's Secret, ' has been often dramatised, filmed and, indeed, has never been out of print from the time of its original publication. Never was the accolade, 'The Queen of Sensation' so well deserved as...

First published in 1864, Henry Dunbar includes all the classic ingredients of a sensation novel, including murder, fraud, mistaken identity, and a train accident. This modern edition features a critical introduction, suggestions for further reading, explanatory footnotes, and additional contextual material.