Victorian Scribblers
Two Victorianists get chatty about the lives and work of the nineteenth-century writers time forgot.
October 18, 2017

S1:E5 – Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Part Two)

1852: we know she started acting. Now, I mentioned this briefly in the Wilkie Collins bio episode, but to the Victorian mind, actors were all loose and not respectable. A young lady who took up acting was, by society’s estimate, a RUINED young lady.But B

1852: we know she started acting. Now, I mentioned this briefly in the Wilkie Collins bio episode, but to the Victorian mind, actors were all loose and not respectable. A young lady who took up acting was, by society’s estimate, a RUINED young lady.But Braddon’s …