Female : Sensation Novelist (probably the most successful Victorian woman in terms of sales) Poet, & Editor. Her books earned £2000 each in the 1860's. In 1861 she began living with the publisher John Maxwell (his wife was confined to a lunatic asylum) and then married him in 1874. She was stepmother to his five children and then had children of her own with him

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Soho, London

Date of Birth : 1835 Date of Death : 1915 Age : 80

Pseudonyms : Babington White

Other Work : Edited Belgravia from 1866, the Belgravia Annual from 1867 and Mistletoe Bough from 1878-1892 (these were owned by Maxwell)

1860-1865
Three Times Dead, or The Secret of the Heath (1860 W & M Clark) - Her 1st Novel
The Trail of the Serpent, or The Secret of the Heath (1861 Maxwell)
[A reissue of her first novel]
Garibaldi and Other Poems (1861 Bosworth & Harrison)
The Trial of the Serpent, or Three Times Dead (1861)
The Lady Lisle (1862 Ward, Lock & Tyler)
The Captain of the Vulture (1862 Ward, Lock)
Lady Audley's Secret (1862 Tinsley) - 3 vols
[This made Braddon's reputation and Wm Tinsley's fortune]
Ralph the Bailiff and Other Tales (1862 Ward, Lock) - 2 vols
(1867 Ward, Lock. Revised Edition)
Aurora Floyd (1863 Tinsley) - 3 vols
Eleanor's Victory (1863 Tinsley) - 3 vols (1863 Tauchnitz - 2 vols in 1)
John Marchmont's Legacy (1863 Tinsley) - 3 vols
Henry Dunbar - the Story of an Outcast (1864 John Maxwell, London) - 3 vols. Anon
The Doctor's Wife (1864 John Maxwell) - 3 vols
Only a Clod (1865 Maxwell) - 3 vols

1866-1870
Sir Jasper's Tenant (1866 Maxwell) - 3 vols
The Lady's Mile (1866 Ward, Lock) - 3 vols
Circe (1867 Ward, Lock) - 2 vols. As Babington White
Rupert Godwin (1867 Ward, Lock) - 3 vols
Birds of Prey (1867 Ward, Lock) - 3 vols
Charlotte's Inheritance (1868 Ward, Lock) - 3 vols
Run to Earth (1868 Ward, Lock) - 3 vols
Dead-Sea Fruit (1868 Ward, lock) - 3 vols

1871-1875
Fenton's Quest (1871 Ward, Lock) - 3 vols
The Summer Tourist (1871 Ward, Lock)
The Lovels of Arden (1871 Maxwell) - 3 vols
Robert Ainsleigh (1872 Maxwell) - 3 vols
To the Bitter End (1872 Maxwell) - 3 vols
Strangers and Pilgrims (1873 Maxwell) - 3 vols
Milly Darrell and Other Tales (1873 Maxwell) 3 vols
Lucius Davoren, or Publicans and Sinners (1873 Maxwell) - 3 vols
Taken at the Flood (1874 Maxwell) - 3 vols
Lost for Love (1874 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
A Strange World (1875 Maxwell) - 3 vols
Hostages to Fortune (1875 Maxwell) - 3 vols

1876-1880
Dead Men's Shoes (1876 Maxwell) - 3 vols
Joshua Haggard's Daughter (1876 Maxwell) - 3 vols
The Black Band (1877 Vickers)
Weavers and Weft and Other Tales (1877 Maxwell) - 3 vols
In Great Waters and Other Tales (1877 Tauchniyz Pb)
An Open Verdict (1878 Maxwell) - 3 vols
Vixen (1879 Maxwell) - 3 vols
The Cloven Foot (1879 Maxwell) - 3 vols
The Story of Barbara (1880 Maxwell) - 3 vols
Just as I Am (1880 Maxwell) - 3 vols
The Missing Witness : Play (1880 Maxwell)
Aladdin (1880 Maxwell)

1881-1890
Asphodel (1881 Maxwell) - 3 vols
Boscastle, Cornwall and English Engadine (1881 W S Cater)
Flower and Weed (1882 Maxwell) - in the "Mistletoe Bough Christmas Annual 1883"
Mount Royal (1882 Maxwell) - 3 vols
Phantom Fortune (1883 Maxwell) - 3 vols
The Golden Calf (1883 John Robert Maxwel, London) - 3 vols
Under the Red Flag (1883 Maxwell) - in "The Mistletoe Bough Christmas Annual 1883"
Ishmael (1884 Maxwell) - 3 vols
Flower and Weed and Other Tales (1884 Maxwell)
Wyllard's Weird : A Novel (1885 Maxwell) - 3 vols
One Thing Needful (1886 Maxwell) - 3 vols
Mohawks (1886 Maxwell) - 3 vols
The Good Hermione (1886 Maxwell) - as Aunt Belinda
Under the Red Flag and Other Tales (1886 Maxwell)
Like and Unlike (1887 Spencer Blackett) - 3 vols
The Fatal Three (1888 Simpkin Marshall) - 3 vols
The Day Will Come (1889 Simpkin Marshall) - 3 vols
One Life, One Love (1890 Simpkin Marshall) - 3 vols

1891-1900
Gerard, or The World, The Flesh and the Devil (1891 Simpkin Marshall) - 3 vols
The Venetians : A Novel (1892 Simpkin Marshall) - 3 vols
All Along the River : A Novel (1893 Simpkin Marshall) - 3 vols
The Christmas Hirelings - in "Lady's Pictorial Christmas Number 1893" - F H Townsend
(1894 Simpkin Marshall)
Thou Art the Man (1894 Simpkin Marshall)
Sons of Fire (1895 Simpkin Marshall) - 3 vols
London Pride, or When the World was Younger (1896 Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent)
Under Love's Rule (1897 Simpkin Marshall)
Rough Justice (1898 Simpkin, Marshall)
In High Places (1898 Hutchinson)
His Darling Sin (1899 Simpkin Marshall)
The Infidel : A Romance (1900 Simpkin Marshall) (1900 Harper, NY)

After 1901
The Conflict (1903 Simpkin Marshall)
A Lost Eden (1904 Hutchinson)
The Rose of Life (1905 Hutchinson)
The White House (1906 Hurst & Blackett)
Her Convict (1907 Hurst & Blackett)
During Her Majesty's Pleasure (1908 Hurst & Blackett)
Our Adversary (1909 Hutchinson)
Beyond These Voices (1910 Hutchinson)
The Green Curtain (1911 Hutchinson)
Miranda (1913 Hutchinson)
Mary (1916 Hutchinson)
The Octoroon (1999 Sensation Press 19.99)

READING
William B Maxwell : Time Gathered (1937 Hutchinson) - her son
Robert Lee Wolff : Sensational Victorian - The Life & Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon
(1979 Garland, NY)
Winifred Hughes : The Maniac in the Cellar - Sensation Novels of the 1860's (1980)
Pamela K Gilbert : Disease, Desire and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels
(1997 CUP £35)
Jennifer Carnell : The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2000 Sensation Press £39.99)