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In early 1862 the publisher Richard Bentley wrote to one of his authors, Ellen Wood, asking if she knew anything about M. E. Braddon. The reply was that ‘M. E.’ was ‘a Miss Braddon’ although nothing else could be ascertained. Wood then revealed a keen awareness of Braddon as a literary rival.
She is mysterious because there is no mystery about her.
Margaret Oliphant on Ellen Wood, 1895
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Sussex, L. (2010). ‘Dead! And … Never Called Me Mother’: Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood. In: Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction. Crime Files Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289406_7
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