Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 - 4 February 1915) was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era. Braddon was a prolific writer, producing more than 80 novels with inventive plots. The most famous is her sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which won her recognition and a fortune as a bestseller. It has also been dramatised and filmed several times. Braddon began publishing the first chapters of her novel in July, 1861, in Robin Goodfellow, a literary magazine owned by Maxwell, and then later Sixpenny Magazine. From its serialized form, Lady Audley's Secret was republished as a novel and sold through nine editions in its first year of publication. Braddon's other best-known novel, Aurora Floyd, appeared in 1863. Since it also featured a woman trapped in a bigamous relationship