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454 Emma's Pick - A Victorian Ghost Story

The History of Literature

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The Victorian Novel by Mary Elizabeth Braden

In England, they were dominated by novels. Mary Elizabeth Braden produced something like 85 books famous for their inventive plots and advanced way of thinking about the internal and external lives of women. She also had a bigamy scandal of her own,. A publisher of periodicals named John Maxwell fell in love with her.

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