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| | 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. |
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