Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Apart from the fact that Braddon was a woman novelist, both the popularity of her novels and the scandal some of them caused make Braddon's work an interesting source for the analysis of the criticism of the situation of women in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. This thesis aims at analysing the criticism of the situation of women in Braddon's novels throughout her career, which lasted from the 1860s to the 1910s. During these fifty years, Braddon wrote more than eighty novel ...