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Mary Elizabeth Braddon ( October 4 , 1837 – February 4 , 1915 ) was a British Victorian Era popular Novelist . LIFE Born in London in England , Braddon was privately educated and worked as an actress for three years in order to be able to support herself and her mother Fanny, who had separated from her father Henry in 1840 , when Mary was just three. When Mary was ten years old, her brother Edward Braddon left for British Raj India and later Australia , where he would become Premier Of Tasmania . In 1860 , Braddon met John Maxwell , a publisher of periodicals. However, Maxwell was married with five children and his wife was insane. Mary acted as the stepmother of the children till 1874 , when Maxwell's wife died, and they could get married. She had six children by him. Braddon was an extremely prolific writer, producing some 75 Novel s with very inventive plots. The most famous one is her first novel, '' Lady Audley's Secret '' ( 1862 ), which won her recognition and fortune as well. The novel has been in print ever since, and has been dramatised and Film ed several times. Braddon also founded " Belgravia Magazine " (1866), which presented readers with serialized sensation novels, poems, travel narratives, and biographies, as well as essays on fashion, history, science. The magazine was accompanied by lavish illustrations and offered readers a source of literature at an affordable cost. Braddon's legacy is tied to the Sensation Fiction of the 1860s . She died on February 4 , 1915 in Richmond Upon Thames , England and is interred there in Richmond Cemetery. PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY Novels
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