2x #VictorianLiterature:
#MaryElizabethBraddon's "The Trail of the Serpent" (1861), maybe the 1st British #detectivenovel & #BramStoker's "The Snake's Pass", his 1890 precursor to #Dracula

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=350833354
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https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=507429346

#EnglishLiterature #IrishLiterature #YearOfTheSnake

I have just updated blog with a new post concerning the sensation novel 'Lady Audley's Secret' by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. An 1860's bestseller which has not really stood the test of time so well.

​Lady Audley has been called 'part heroine/ part monster'. Certainly never dull. #19thcenturynovels,#19thcenturywomenwriters, #VictorianStudies #maryelizabethbraddon

https://bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/2024/03/lady-audleys-secret-mary-elizabeth.html

Recently finished #ladyaudleyssecret #maryelizabethbraddon Three out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "It lay low down in a hollow, rich with fine old timber and luxuriant pastures; and you came upon it through an avenue of limes, bordered on either side by meadows, over the high hedges of which the cattle looked inquisitively at you as you passed, wondering, perhaps, what you wanted;

Just finished #ourladyofthenile #scholastiquemukasonga #jubileebigread Three out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "There is no better lycée than Our Lady of the Nile." Next up: #ladyaudleyssecret #maryelizabethbraddon

New article by Robert E. Rains (Penn State Dickinson Law) about the "charges ... a crusading prosecutor might have leveled against Lady A[udley]". Also like that he calls Sir Robert Audley "very slow" :-) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4096847&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_law:literature:ejournal_abstractlink #Victorian #crimefiction #sensationfiction #MaryElizabethBraddon #womenwriters #law #LitStudies

I've edited an anthology of 30 Christmas ghost stories penned from 1820 to 1929. In paperback & Kindle from all Amazon marketplaces.
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost.../dp/B0BHMPR3RY/ref=sr_1_1...

Features: #WashingtonIrving #CharlesDickens #MarkLemon #ElizabethGaskell #ENesbit #FitzJamesOBrien #EFBenson #SabineBaringGould #MaryElizabethBraddon, #CharlotteRiddell #RobertLouisStevenson #algernonblackwood & many more

#Christmas #ghost #ghoststories #horror #shortstory #ghoststoriesforchristmas #andibrooks #fiction #anthology