WRITER

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

1835 - 1915

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 – 4 February 1915) was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Elizabeth Braddon has received more than 192,959 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Mary Elizabeth Braddon is the 4,833rd most popular writer (down from 4,470th in 2019), the 3,516th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,340th in 2019) and the 400th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Golden Calf
2004
Henry Dunbar the story of an outcast
Fiction, thrillers, general, Crime, fiction
1864
Henry Dunbar
Fiction, thrillers, general, Crime, fiction
2009
Lady Audley's secret
Fiction, Married women, Deception
<p><i>Lady Audley’s Secret</i> was the most successful of a long series of novels written by <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/m-e-braddon">Mary Elizabeth Braddon</a> in what was then called the “sensation” genre because of the inventive and slightly scandalous plots of such works.</p> <p>Published in 1862, <i>Lady Audley’s Secret</i> was immediately popular and is said to have made a fortune for its author. It has never been out of print and has been the basis for a number of dramas and movies.</p> <p>The novel begins with the return from the Australian goldfields of ex-dragoon George Talboys. Three years earlier, in the depths of poverty, he had abandoned his young wife and their baby in order to seek his fortune. He returns to England having made that fortune by finding a huge gold nugget. He enlists the help of his friend Robert Audley, a rather idle young barrister, to seek out his wife. To George’s dismay and overwhelming grief, however, he sees a newspaper notice of the death of his wife only a few days prior to his return.</p> <p>A year later, when visiting Audley’s relatives and after catching a glimpse of the pretty new wife of Robert’s uncle, George goes missing. Robert becomes increasingly convinced that his friend has met with violence and is dead, and begins to investigate. What he discovers fills him with despair.</p>
1862
Henry Dunbar
Fiction, thrillers, general, Crime, fiction
2008
Lady Audley's Secret
England, fiction, Married people, fiction, Fiction, psychological
2003

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mary Elizabeth Braddon ranks 4,833 out of 7,302. Before her are Zig Ziglar, W. W. Jacobs, Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson, Barbro Lindgren, Johann Jakob Breitinger, and Jeton Kelmendi. After her are Stanley G. Weinbaum, Norman Smith, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Zhu Ziqing, and Leonti Mroveli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Mary Elizabeth Braddon ranks 73. Before her are Paul Du Chaillu, Kārlis Baumanis, Germanus V of Constantinople, Hashimoto Gahō, Eduardo Pondal, and Osbert Salvin. After her are Johannes Wislicenus, Ramón Barros Luco, Theodore Thomas, Archibald Geikie, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, and Gregorio María Aguirre y García. Among people deceased in 1915, Mary Elizabeth Braddon ranks 97. Before her are Ferdinand Sarrien, Anthony Wilding, Christian Wilhelm Allers, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Carl Locher, and Wyndham Halswelle. After her are Désiré Charnay, Karol Olszewski, Guillermo Billinghurst, Bagha Jatin, Hans von Berlepsch, and Mari Beyleryan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Elizabeth Braddon ranks 3,516 out of 8,785. Before her are Wyndham Halswelle (1882), Richard Leach Maddox (1816), Mick Jones (1944), Natalia Tena (1984), W. W. Jacobs (1863), and Osbert Salvin (1835). After her are Norman Smith (1923), Joe Cole (1981), Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919), Peter Whitehead (1914), Marie Spartali Stillman (1844), and William Frederick Denning (1848).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Mary Elizabeth Braddon ranks 400. Before her are Hannah More (1745), Robert Bolt (1924), William Martin Leake (1777), Nicholas Evans (1950), John Lyly (1554), and W. W. Jacobs (1863). After her are Norman Smith (1923), Mary Stewart (1916), Len Deighton (1929), Alan Woods (1944), Susan Blackmore (1951), and Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743).

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