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  Braddon Cottages
Braddon Cottages, Ashwater, Devon, UK Six large substantial cottages especially for country lovers with views south over parkland and lake to Dartmoor on secluded 150 acre garden and forest estate.
All are solidly built stone or masonry buildings with slated roofs surrounded by gardens and lawns landscaped in local stone, and provide a high standard of accommodation and comfort.
All have fine views to the south over Braddon Lake and to Dartmoor, and are in a quiet secluded setting at the end of a long drive.
www.braddoncottages.co.uk   (253 words)

  
  Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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.
Braddon's legacy is tied to the Sensation Fiction of the 1860s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Elizabeth_Braddon   (321 words)

  
 Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret (1862)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born to an uncertain future: she was the daughter of a profligate and philandering father.
Braddon’s interests in French fiction point to an important fact of literary history: the novel at this point in time was an international phenomenon and was understood as such by British novelists and the British reading public alike.
Braddon was astonishingly prolific and hard-working: in addition to many now-forgotten plays, she published over 60 novels in her lifetime, raised 11 children (6 of them her own), and, after 1866, edited Belgravia Magazine, a publication created for her by her publisher and common-law husband, John Maxwell.
www.unlv.edu /faculty/droisen/mebsnap.html   (2547 words)

  
 Mary Elizabeth (M.E.) Braddon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Braddon stoked the phenomenon of the "sensation novel," which had first appeared in England with the publication of Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White (1860) and Mrs.
Braddon married Maxwell in 1874, but in the intervening years had given birth to six children while rearing five from his earlier marriage.
The sensation genre which Braddon was instrumental in popularizing remained vibrant throughout the rest of the century, although its heyday was the 1860s.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/wives/writers/braddon.html   (322 words)

  
 maryelizabethbraddon
Braddon also wrote novels influenced by French realism, working class fiction, detective novels (her contribution to the development of detective fiction is an important one), historical novels and 'straight' novels.
Braddon was born in 1835 at 2 Frith Street, Soho, London, the daughter of a Cornish solicitor and an Irish mother.
Braddon discovered her husband had been having an affair, and Braddon and her mother Fanny moved to St. Leonards-On-Sea in East Sussex for a short time, after which she spent the rest of her childhood in London, finally settling in Camberwell.
www.sensationpress.com /aboutmaryelizabethbraddon.htm   (737 words)

  
 Hotel in Torquay - Braddon Hall Hotel.
Braddon Hall is the perfect choice for a holiday on the English Riviera, being ideally located only 500 metres from the harbour, shops and beaches.
The hotel is a distinctive Edwardian property built by the Victorians and taking on the name ‘Braddon Hall’ in 1903.
We aim to give a quality service, combined with excellent value for money and look forward to welcoming you to Braddon Hall in Torquay – where you can be sure of a friendly welcome and a relaxing and enjoyable stay.
www.braddonhallhotel.com   (150 words)

  
 Division of Braddon (state) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Division of Braddon, Tasmania is one of the 5 electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
The boundaries and name of the electorate are shared with the federal Division of Braddon and includes the towns of Devonport, Burnie, Wynard, Ulverstone, Penguin, Smithton and others.
At each state government election; 5 members are elected to Braddon through preference voting (see single transferable vote).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Division_of_Braddon,_Tasmania   (140 words)

  
 Braddon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Edward Braddon, Australian politician and member of the inaugural Australian House of Representatives
Braddon, Australian Capital Territory, an inner suburb of Canberra
the Division of Braddon (state) an electoral division for the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Braddon   (124 words)

  
 The Literary Gothic | Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Braddon's (sort of) vampire story, recasting vampire supersitition in the context of mid-Victorian medical technology.
Perhaps Braddon's most famous novel, and the one that launched her writing career.
A substantial discussion of Braddon and her involvement in the tradition of sensation literature.
www.litgothic.com /Authors/braddon.html   (384 words)

  
 Sensation Writers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Braddon's novel Lady Audley's Secret mentions both Alexandre Dumas and Wilkie Collins (Volume 3, Chapter 7), in a way which makes it clear that they are ancestors of the kind of writing she is undertaking in the book.
Braddon's novel is narrated in the third person, but she keeps up the casebook approach by making such pointers be part of her detective's dialogue.
Braddon's story is the first of a series of mystery tales using this combined approach.
members.aol.com /MG4273/sensatio.htm   (10833 words)

  
 Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Link to BBC Radio programme about sensation fiction (Broadcast 6 Nov 2003)
ry Elizabeth Braddon and the Culture of Sensation
I'd love to hear from other people with an interest in Braddon.
www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk /braddon.html   (69 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Mary Elizabeth Braddon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon was one of Victorian England's best-loved writers, as well as being one of the most prolific.
To support her mother and sister, Braddon embarked on a career as a professional actress – a scandalous career for a Victorian woman.
She had no illusions about the literary value of this hack work, and wryly commented to her friend Bulwer Lytton that “the amount of crime, treachery, murder, slow poisoning & general infamy required by the halfpenny reader is something terrible.” But some of these novels have recently been reprinted, and are still enjoyable.
www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5053   (684 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Aurora Floyd (The World's Classics): Books: Mary Elizabeth Braddon,P. D. Edwards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Aurora Floyd (1862-3) and Braddon's earlier novel Lady Audley's Secret established her as one of the ruling triumvirate of the popular and notorious "sensation novelists." Like Lady Audley, Aurora is a beautiful young woman bigamously married and threatened with exposure by a flmailer.
The story is melodramatic, but it is the merit of sensation novels, the genre in vogue during the 1860s, and Braddon, as she showed in her previous (actually written almost at the same time) "Lady Audley's Secret," is very good at handling the subject.
Trivia: Braddon lived long (died in 1915), and before her death, she even watched the filmed version of her own "Aurora Floyd." Her life story is as intriguing as a story she wrote.
www.amazon.com /Aurora-Worlds-Classics-Elizabeth-Braddon/dp/0192824023   (1187 words)

  
 2006 Tasmanian Election. Braddon Electorate Profile. Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC)
Braddon is seen as Tasmania's most socially conservative electorate, so progressive Green social policies have not always been popular locally.
Despite Labor losing Braddon at the 2004 Federal election, there has been no indication that state Labor's vote is falling.
The most likely result in Braddon is a continuation of 3 Labor and 2 Liberal MPs, with an outside chance the Greens Paul O'Halloran could win a seat.
www.abc.net.au /elections/tas/2006/guide/brad.htm   (639 words)

  
 Bristol Business School - Academic Community
Derek Braddon; Dancing on the Edge of the Chasm: The Russian Economy in Crisis in D. CarIton and P. Ingram (eds) The Search for Stability in Russia and the Former Soviet Union, Ashgate, April 1997.
Derek Braddon and Paul Dowdall; The Historical Importance of Bristol’s Defence and Aerospace Sector in Wardley P and Griffiths D (ed) Bristol – The History of a Modern and Prospering City, University of the West of England, Bristol, April 2000.; book chapter and CD Rom.
Derek Braddon and Paul Dowdall Flexible Networks and the Restructuring of the Regional Defence Industry: The Case of South West England, Defence and Peace Economics, Vol.
www.uwe.ac.uk /bbs/acad/econ/braddon.shtml   (666 words)

  
 Braddon One-Name Study
'Braddon' was established as an identifiable standard spelling in the seventeenth century, although there have been occasional mis-spellings or (should I say?) alternative spellings as 'Bradon' or 'Bradden'.
In the 1901 UK census there were 288 Braddons, in 1891 276, in 1881, in 1871 208, in 1861 170 and in 1851 178.
Among the data I have gathered are the full references to 'Braddons' in the UK censuses from 1851-1901 (and partially 1841), all Braddon references in the GRO Indexes of Births, Marriage and Deaths from 1837-1939 and thousands of other references from miscellaneous sources.
www.one-name.org /profiles/braddon.html   (498 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Trail of the Serpent: Books: Mary Braddon,Chris Willis,Sarah Waters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel is a lurid melodrama in which you see plenty of crimes -- murder, flmail, revenge, etc. Every element found in melodramaric story is thrown into the book, and not surprisingly, it even has some rudimentary detective novel quality.
It is interesting for us to see that Braddon does not still find her own voice; her style in this book is a strange concoction of Dickens and melodrama.
The notes (32 pages) are extensive and helpful, but more helpful is her afterword, which puts Braddon in context of the history of detective fiction.
www.amazon.ca /Trail-Serpent-Mary-Braddon/dp/0812966783   (834 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: John Marchmont's Legacy: Books: Mary Elizabeth Braddon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
While still in her mid-twenties, Braddon scored two remarkable hits with the sensational Lady Audley's Secret and Aurora Floyd.
If you are new to Braddon, I would suggest starting with some of her other titles such as The Trail of The Serpent or Aurora Floyd.
M E Braddon was one of the most prolific Sensation novellists of the nineteenth century.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0192833219   (834 words)

  
 Braddon Mary Elizabeth - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Braddon Mary Elizabeth - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1835-1915), English novelist who, along with Wilkie Collins, was one of the principal exponents of the sensation novel....
Throughout the 1850s, Collins contributed stories and articles to Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round, developing a style of...
uk.encarta.msn.com /Braddon_Mary_Elizabeth.html   (119 words)

  
 Braddon, Mary Elizabeth: At Chrighton Abbey and Other Horror Stories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON (1835-1915) was one of the most prolific and popular authors of her day.
Today Mary Elizabeth Braddon is remembered among fans of weird fiction for her classic horror and ghost stories, the most famous of which are collected herein.
This volume is an excellent introduction to the fantastic works of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and a welcome addition to the Wildside Fantasy Classics line.
www.forbesbookclub.com /BookPage.asp?prod_cd=IV788   (139 words)

  
 Mary Elizabeth Braddon
English novelist, daughter of Henry Braddon, solicitor, of Skirdon Lodge, Cornwall, and sister of Sir Edward Braddon, prime minister of Tasmania, was born in London in 1837.
She began at an early age to contribute to periodicals, and in 1861 produced her first novel, The Trail of the Serpent.
They give, indeed, the great body of readers of fiction exactly what they require; melodramatic in plot and character, conventional in their views of life, they are yet distinguished by constructive skill and opulence of invention.
www.nndb.com /people/124/000102815   (250 words)

  
 MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, an English writer of sentimental stories, was born in London in 1837 and died at Richmond-on-Thames February 4, 1915.
She wrote poems, short stories, essays, two dramas, and about seventy-five novels, the latter so popular that she is said to have earned nearly a million dollars by her pen.
It may be of interest to note that at an auction sale at the Parke-Bernet Galleries, in January, 1941, a copy of the first edition of her "Lady Audley's Secret," 1862, was bought by Charles Scribner's Sons for $750.
www.niulib.niu.edu /badndp/braddon_mary.html   (189 words)

  
 Braddon 4WD Club Web Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Braddon 4WD Club is situated, in Burnie on the North West Coast of Tasmania, Australia.
The Braddon Four Wheel Drive Club consists of some sixty members with the common interest in recreational four wheel driving and associated activities.
The Braddon Club and TRVA work together to maintain and create access to traditional places and create new recreational areas throughout the State.
www.southcom.com.au /~peach   (511 words)

  
 Braddon, Paul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It appears to be an 18th century view of Shrewsbury Abbey (judging by the costumes of the figures.) I note that one of your correspondents has a Paul Braddon dated 1830 (although only on the mount) whilst another puts his dates around 1895.
I have 2 original water colours by Paul Braddon painted at the turn of the century, one Malines Cathedral from the south, and west front of Reimes cathedral.
I have a large framed water colour by Paul Braddon of Rouen Cathedral, painted in 1895.I have discovered that Paul Braddon was an American, who lived and painted in England and France around the turn of that century.
www.artguide.org /uk/AG.pl?Action=39844A&Axis=AllArtists   (667 words)

  
 Braddon Programme
Reading Braddon’s Unpublished Short Story, ‘Circumambulatory: Or the adventures of three gentlemen and a lady in search of a British public’
Braddon on Trial: Reputation, Respectability and Courtroom Drama in His Darling Sin (1899)
Mary (1916): Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Novel in Typescript
homepage.ntlworld.com /jessica.cox/programme.htm   (178 words)

  
 BRADDON MENDELSON'S BIO
Braddon is the producer and director of Maestro Jerard's Melodic Cuisine, a live stage show featuring virtuoso Maestro Jerard, which is billed as a "feast of classical guitar music and popular American tunes."
In 1999, Braddon was selected to participate in the prestigious Warner Brothers Writers Workshop.
Here are a few of the projects Braddon has been involved with over the years.
www.noisivision.com /braddon.htm   (371 words)

  
 Elizabeth Braddon
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON was born in Frith Street, London, the daughter of a solicitor.
In about 1840 her parents separated and she and her mother Fanny moved to St. Leonards-On-Sea for a short time, after which she spent the rest of her childhood in London.
At this time she set up home with her publisher, becoming stepmother to his six children, and having six children of her own.
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /b/elizabeth-braddon   (476 words)

  
 Braddon
Name Derivation: Named after Sir Edward Braddon 1829-1904, Premier of Tasmania 1894-99, and a Member of the House of Representatives 1901-04.
Area and Location Description: Braddon is a rural electorate covering approximately 11 760 sq km in North West Tasmania.
The cities of Burnie and Devonport are in the Division of Braddon.
www.aec.gov.au /_content/who/profiles/B/Braddon.htm   (205 words)

  
 2004 Federal Election. Braddon Electorate Profile. Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC)
The north-west coast of Tasmania, extending 11,760 sq.km west from Port Sorell and Devonport to include Ulverstone, Burnie, Wynyard, Stanley, Smithton and Waratah, as well as King Island in Bass Strait.
The decline of job prospects has seen the local population fall in recent years, down 3.1% between the 1996 and 2001 census, the largest decline in the country.
Named Darwin until 1955, the electorate was re-named Braddon in honour of Sir Edward Braddon, one of the leaders of the Federation movement in Tasmania, a former member of the Tasmanian Parliament and also member of the first House of Representatives.
www.abc.net.au /elections/federal/2004/guide/brad.htm   (308 words)

  
 Lives of Victorian Literary Figures Part V published by Pickering & Chatto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Her depiction of sexually powerful women corresponded all too neatly with her dubious private life, as the unmarried partner of John Maxwell, a publisher whose wife was incarcerated (like several Braddon heroines) in a lunatic asylum.
Like Braddon, Collins’s personal life attracted speculation, as if someone so adept at portraying moral degeneracy must be a little degenerate himself.
William Thackeray (1811—63) began his career, as Braddon and Collins did, by revealing criminal inclinations within respectable society.
www.pickeringchatto.com /victorianlives5.htm   (439 words)

  
 Oxford University Press: The Doctor's Wife: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
With The Doctor's Wife, Mary Elizabeth Braddon rewrote Flaubert's Madame Bovary, exploring the heroine's sense of entrapment and alienation in middle-class provincial life.
A woman with a secret, adultery, death, and the spectacle of female recrimination and suffering are the elements which combine to make The Doctor's Wife a classic women's sensation novel.
The novel is also self-consciously literary, however, and Braddon attempts to transcend the sensation genre.
www.us.oup.com /us/catalog/24644/subject/Literature/?view=usa&ci=9780192833013   (205 words)

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