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  • Honourable H.Y. Braddon is Commissioner for Australia in the United States.

    Australia and Her Post-War Problem 1919

  • "At Chrighton Abbey" by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1871) Another classic of ghost-story writing, with a doomed family and a crumbling, historic house at the heart of it.

    Kate Mosse's top 10 ghost stories Kate Mosse 2010

  • In any event, from a twenty-first century perspective, this is a fairly astonishing list--one would hardly expect to find Trollope and Collins and Braddon and Gaskell and Eliot all denounced for doing the same type of thing.

    The unmentionable 2010

  • I finally managed to finish my Christmas shopping yesterday, thanks to some hidden gems in Braddon, Canberra.

    Funky gift stores in Canberra — RuthEllison.com 2009

  • Collins is known as the “father of the detective novel,” Braddon is similar except perhaps more gothic and less detective.

    Rebecca Pidgeon: Huff Post Exclusive Music Download 2008

  • I think the collection is called Lord Peter Views the Body and the stories have occasional Gothic elements, showing Sayers' unusual acknowledgement of the Gothic as one of the roots of detective stories - she read Braddon and Lefanu.

    My thyroid doctor is happy, which scares me. Elizabeth McClung 2007

  • As a result, Derrida became popular among those willing to question the sterile idea of a “western canon” who wanted to expand literary discourse so that writers such as Mary Elizabeth Braddon could sit alongside the Brontes.

    Thanks Derrida « So Many Books 2004

  • After fullblown Braddon hear this fresky troterella!

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • India (Braddon, Ellis, Fletcher, and Fraser & Stanton), on the strength of which in 1910 the following resolution was drawn up by the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine meeting in

    Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • On my way home after the Braddon people had left us somebody asked me how I liked Paul Moore!

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 1908

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