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26 January 2009

Professor Sally Ledger, who was my PhD supervisor, has died. She was such a wonderful person, and I could not have
asked for a better or more understanding tutor. The Birkbeck College English Department has an obituary page:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/eh/news/sally_ledger

She had recently joined the English Department at Royal Holloway as Hildred Carlisle Professor in English
and was Director of the Centre for Victorian Studies: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/English/

Obituary in The Guardian by Tom Healy: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/jan/28/obituary-sally-ledger

20 December 2008

Two more plays:

Aurora Floyd by William Suter, click here.

Lady Audley's Secret by William Suter, click here.

20 November 2007

A new Sensation Press title (yes, that rare event!) is published today.
A limited edition (100 copies) of the 1863 play Lady Audley's Secret by George Roberts. For more details click here.

16 September 2007

A message from Simon Cooke for those interested in Sheridan Le Fanu:

The Journal of Le Fanu Studies, a new on-line publication has recently been launched by Gary Crawford. The Journal is a refereed periodical that publishes essays on all aspects of Le Fanu's life, writings and times, including modern interpretations in film and television and on the radio.

Contributors should get in touch with Gary Crawford, e-mail: gothicpt12@aol.com or visit the website, www.jslefanu.com/lefanustudies.html

Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas has recently been published by Ashgate. In it she writes about Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, Rhoda Broughton's Not Wisely But Too Well, Armadale and The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins, and other works. You can read more here.

Yevgeny Feldman's translation of Lady Audley's Secret was published in Russia in April.

I haven't had a chance to see it, but Sensation Press reader B recommends From Sensation to Society: Representations of Marriage in the Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Bradden, 1862-1866 by Natalie Schroeder and Ronald A. Schroeder. It is published by the University of Delaware. You can read more here.

M and B tell me there is a new 5 hour audio book edition of Lady Audley's Secret, read by Juliet Stephenson. It is produced by CSA and priced at £15.99.

26 June 2007

The antiquarian & secondhand copies of Braddon novels for sale can now be found here.

28 March 2007

The latest edition of the Dickens Magazine, Series 4, Issue No. 3, has an article about Braddon. The magazine is edited by George Gorniak
and has interesting articles on Dickens and other authors. It costs £28 to subscribe to a series of four issues. The publisher's address is: Grayswood Press, Rockfield, Ash Tree Press, Grayswood, Surrey, GU27 2DS, United Kingdom.

9 March 2007

Yevgeny Feldman, a poet from Siberia, has told me his Russian translation of Lady Audley's Secret will soon be published by Geleos in Moscow.

6 January 2007

The next Sensation Press book to be published will be Mary, Braddon's last novel. Mary was published in 1916, the year after her death and the Sensation Press edition will include a number of interesting extras in addition to the text. Date of publication to be announced, but more can be read about the contents here:

Mary by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

2 May 2006

After two decades of work, Kurt Ganzl has completed his biography of Emily Soldene - EMILY SOLDENE: In Search of a Singer. It's in two volumes, lavishly illustrated, and published in New Zealand in a limited edition of 500 sets by Steele Roberts. Further details can be found http://footlightnotes.tripod.com/EmilySoldene.html

Due to computer problems, I've been delayed adding this; Jessica Cox now has a website and a conference booking form. Forms should be returned to her by 31 March. The website address is: http://www.braddonsymposium.co.uk/ and the booking form is there too.

6 February 2006

The deadline for conference abstracts has been extended to 22 February.
To express an interest in this event, ask to be placed on the mailing list,
or to submit a 150-200 word abstract, email Jessica at: braddonconference@ntlworld.com

25 January 2006

A reminder from Jessica Cox that the deadline for abstracts for the Braddon Symposium is the 31 January.
braddonconference@ntlworld.com

25 December 2005

Merry Christmas! To see a Christmas card sent by Mary Braddon from Lichfield House in 1913 click here.

A reader of this website tells me that Braddon's short story 'My First Happy Christmas' has just been published in a collection of stories, Christmas Ghost Stories by the Folio Society.

The David Pae page has recently been updated.

14 December 2005

Jessica Cox is planning a one day Braddon conference to be held at the University of Wales, Swansea in April. Jessica would like to hear from anyone interested in presenting a paper. Full details below.

MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON
SYMPOSIUM
To be held at
University of Wales Swansea
22 April 2006

This one-day conference seeks to draw together scholars working on all aspects of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's life and fiction.

Possible topics for 20 minute papers might include:

· Braddon and the literary marketplace
· Braddon and the theatre
· Braddon's twentieth century fiction
· Adaptations of Braddon's novels
· Braddon and the sensation school
· Representations of gender in Braddon's work
· Braddon's literary influences
· Braddon's influence on other writers
· Autobiographical elements of Braddon's fiction
· Braddon's writing as social commentary
· Braddon's significance/legacy as a Victorian woman writer

Abstract deadline: 31 January 2006

To express an interest in this event, ask to be placed on the mailing list, or to submit a 150-200 word abstract, email: braddonconference@ntlworld.com

13 December 2005

I should have mentioned that I sent the Braddon books in memory of Chris Willis to Richmond Museum in September. The bookplate which has been pasted in each can be seen here.

1 November 2005

Michael Flowers now has a terrific new website on Charlotte Riddell (Mrs. J.H. Riddell)
http://www.charlotteriddell.co.uk/

16 August 2005

I would like to recommend the recent four volume publication of Wilkie Collins's letters: The Public Face of Wilkie Collins: The Collected Letters (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2005) edited by William Baker, Andrew Gasson, Graham Law, and Paul Lewis.

21 June 2005

At long last the Sensation Press edition of Braddon's The White Phantom is complete. The publication date is 30 June. Some pictures of the new book can be seen here.

21 February 2005

The Braddon books which I gave Richmond Museum in memory of Chris Willis can be seen here.

7 January 2005

There are to be two more performances of the play Secrets and Rumours: The Unconventional Life of M. E. Braddon by Doug Pinchin and Richard Morris. The venue is The Mill Studio at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, Surrey. The dates are Friday 18 February & Saturday 19 February. You can find further details and booking information here.

29 November 2004

Matthew Sweet has written an obituary of Chris Willis for today's issue of The Independent:

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=587714

17 November 2004

It is with great sadness that I inform those who have not read the news elsewhere, that Chris Willis died last week. Chris was a wonderful person and a friend to me, as well as my biggest cheerleader when I founded The Sensation Press. Her interests were wide and eclectic, but among them included the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Her Braddon website, and the Braddon discussion list she founded, did much to promote Braddon and to bring those interested in Braddon together. She organised two Braddon conferences, one in 2000 - Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Culture of Sensation - and The Sensational Miss Braddon in 2004. She edited and wrote the introduction for The Fatal Marriage for The Sensation Press and last year edited The Trail of The Serpent for Random House. My thoughts go out to her partner and family.

6 September 2004

There are to be two more performances of the play Secrets and Rumours: The Unconventional Life of M. E. Braddon by Doug Pinchin and Richard Morris. The venue is the National Trust property Ham House, near Richmond, Surrey. The dates are Sunday 19 September & Sunday 26 September. You can find further details and booking information here. It should be an excellent night's entertainment.

23 June 2004

Over the past few months there have been additions to the book sections and to the Braddon pages. Today the Recommended Websites page has been updated.

12 January 2004

The Sensational Miss Braddon: A 19th Century Author with a 21st Century Life, an exhibition at the Museum of Richmond in Surrey, opens on Wednesday 14 January. It will continue until 24 April. The full press release and the address of the Museum can be viewed here: richmondexhibition

Secrets and Rumours: The Unconventional Life of M. E. Braddon, a new play starring Sabina Franklyn by Doug Pinchin and Richard Morris, will be performed at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond on Sunday 25 January 2004. There will be a matinee and evening performance. The flier and further details can be found here: secretsrumours The programme for the production can he viewed here:

15 December 2003

The Sensation Press website has been updated considerably.

The ever industrious Chris Willis is organising a Braddon conference to coincide with the end of the Braddon events (an exhibition of Braddon's life and work and a play by Doug Pinchin) in Richmond. The conference is to be held on 30 March 2004, and details can be found here:

http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/braddon_in_richmond.htm

11 August 2003

An article about Braddon by Lucasta Miller, 'Sweet Sensation,' appeared in the Guardian review section two days ago. It's a fun read. Thanks to Jessica on the Braddon list for the heads up. A link to the article can be found below.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1014704,00.html

22 July 2003

1. The Antiquarian and Secondhand book section have been added to, and now runs to 20 pages.

2. A small number of slightly faulty copies of Sensation Press titles at reduced prices can be found here.

3. The Mary Elizabeth Braddon pages have been added to, and there will be further updates over the next couple of weeks.

3 April 2003

1. The main news is the creation of this site. After a few months of saying it would be ready soon, it is finally on the web! It will be updated and added to frequently, so keep checking for new information and new pages.

2. An extract of a review of The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon in the journal Victorian Periodicals Review by Prof. Benjamin F. Fisher can be read on the site Victorian Database Online Critic's Choice:

http://www.victoriandatabase.com/choice.cfm#Critic2

OTHER NEWS

1. An edition of The Trail of the Serpent by Mary Elizabeth Braddon has just been published by Random House (UK price £8.92), with an introduction by Sarah Waters (author of Tipping the Velvet) and edited with notes by Chris Willis. Chris has done an excellent job. It is available at all good bookshops in America and the United Kingdom and can be found in the UK at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812966783/qid=1049363843/

2. An very interesting little publication by Helen R. Smith, New Light on Sweeney Todd,Thomas Peckett Prest,James Malcolm Rymer and Elizabeth Caroline Grey, will be of use to those interested in penny dreadfuls and penny bloods. Priced £7.50, it can be found at AmazonUK:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1900718375/qid=1049364343/

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