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'𝐓𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬
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🎉 Happy Birthday to #MaryElizabethBraddon, #bornonthisday in 1835! A pioneer of Victorian crime fiction, her novel Lady Audley's Secret captivated readers with its twists, secrets and scandals, shaping the modern mystery genre. #CrimeFiction

Read abstracts for _Clues: A Journal of Detection_ (vol 43, no 2, 2025)—theme issue on #Disability & #DetectiveFiction elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/09/Clue... #AlfredHitchcock #ThomasHarris #MaryElizabethBraddon #TV #CornellWoolrich #Victorian #LouisePenny #TanaFrench #autism #StephenKing

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by #MaryElizabethBraddon
Sir Penlyon is spending Christmas at his estate with his niece. It is decided Christmas needs small children, & find some "hirelings" #blueskybooks #booksky📚💙#HolidayStories #HolidayReading 🎁🎁🎁

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Here's a pencil drawing by Louis Huard (1814-1874) (left) for #MaryElizabethBraddon 's serialised novel 'Dead Sea Fruit' published in Belgravia Magazine in 1868. To the right is the printed version (p.136). Did Braddon suggest the changes (e.g. the Astrakhan collar)?

#LouisHuard (1814-1874) made the original pencil, wash #watercolour drawing; on the right the #woodengraving from it by #EdmundEvans (1826-1905) for #MaryElizabethBraddon 's periodical Belgravia (v.11, 1870). Did #Braddon made editorial decisions about the artwork in her magazine? #19thc

I'd add Lady Audley's Secret to @GuardianBooks 'Top 10 novels featuring works of art' http://goo.gl/dA6BVj #MaryElizabethBraddon