About Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Mary Elizabeth Braddon is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret.
You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer." "I sometimes think I should have been a good one." "Why?" "Because I am patient.
Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
