The Infidel (eBook, ePUB) - Elizabeth Braddon, Mary
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"The Infidel" is a work by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published for the first time in 1900."The Infidel" is one of Braddon's novels in the sensation literature genre."The Infidel" is an atypical novel, as regards the literary collection of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The London author, in fact, has always set his novels in the contemporary age and this is his only work set, however, in a different historical context. We are in 1750 and the protagonist, Antonia Thornton is a girl raised by an atheist family. After meeting with "Oxford Methodists", however, Antonia begins, little by little, asking…mehr

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"The Infidel" is a work by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published for the first time in 1900."The Infidel" is one of Braddon's novels in the sensation literature genre."The Infidel" is an atypical novel, as regards the literary collection of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The London author, in fact, has always set his novels in the contemporary age and this is his only work set, however, in a different historical context. We are in 1750 and the protagonist, Antonia Thornton is a girl raised by an atheist family. After meeting with "Oxford Methodists", however, Antonia begins, little by little, asking questions about the meaning of human existence: life, death, faith, religion, etc. Among the "Methodists" we find several prominent personalities, including Stobard, with whom the protagonist weaves a deep friendship. On the other hand, however, Antonia also meets Lord Kilrush who is struck by the beauty and intelligence of the girl. Kilrish begins to woo Antonia and take the two, intertwine a relationship, until they get married. Meanwhile, secretly, even Stobard is in love with Antonia and from now on the story becomes more and more intricate, complex and compelling ... The vast literary production of Mary Elizabeth Braddon includes eighty novels, numerous comedies, poems, essays and short stories.The author received numerous criticisms for having given excessive centrality to compromising issues such as polygamy and crime.
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 - 4 February 1915) was a popular English novelist of the Victorian era. Braddon was a prolific writer, producing more than 80 novels with inventive plots. The most famous is Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which won her recognition and a fortune as a bestseller. Braddon founded Belgravia magazine in 1866, which presented readers with serialised sensation novels, poems, travel narratives, and biographies, along with essays on fashion, history, and science. Born in Soho, London, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was privately educated. Her mother Fanny separated from her father Henry because of his infidelities in 1840, when Mary was five. When Mary was ten years old, her brother Edward Braddon left for India and later Australia, where he became Premier of Tasmania. Mary worked as an actress for three years, when she was befriended by Clara and Adelaide Biddle. They were only playing minor roles, but Braddon was able to support herself and her mother. Adelaide noted that Braddon's interest in acting waned as she took up writing novels. Mary met John Maxwell (1824-1895), a publisher of periodicals, in April 1861 and moved in with him in 1861. However, Maxwell was already married to Mary Ann Crowley, with whom he had five children. While Maxwell and Braddon were living as husband and wife, Crowley was living with her family. On 1864, Maxwell tried to legitimize their relationship by telling the newspapers that they were legally married; "however, Richard Brinsley Knowles wrote to these papers, informing them that his sister-in-law and true wife of Maxwell was still living, thereby exposing Braddon's 'wife' status as a façade." Mary acted as stepmother to his children until 1874, when Maxwell's wife died and they were able to get married at St. Bride's Church in Fleet Street. Braddon had six children by him: Gerald, Fanny, Francis, William, Winifred Rosalie, and Edward Herry Harrington.