The daughter of a London solicitor, Miss Mary Braddon, the famous author, whose first novel was published in 1860, inherited her taste for literature from her mother, a very gifted writer. At seventy-three years of age, Miss Braddon is still able to recall how, as a schoolgirl, she wrote a story in one of her exercise books, called "The Old Armchair," which made her famous among her schoolfellows. Hard-hearted publishers, however, refused to publish this effort, as well as many others which were turned out while Miss Braddon was still in her teens. After writing a small comedietta and a volume of verse, however. Miss Braddon startled the world in 1862 with " Lady Audley's Secret." Her son, Mr. W. B Maxwell", who, too, is earning great fame as a novelist, lives with his mother.

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