Braddon
Proper noun
Meaning
Braddon
A surname.
Examples
Braddon initially sold the rights to the Irish publisher John Maxwell, with whom Braddon also lived and had children.
AN oil spill has closed Lonsdale Street in Braddon.
Braddon wrote several works of supernatural fiction, including the pact with the devil story Gerald, or the World, the Flesh and the Devil (1891), and the ghost stories "The Cold Embrace", "Eveline's Visitant" and "At Chrighton Abbey".
Braddon was a prolific writer, producing more than 80 novels with inventive plots.
Braddon also founded Belgravia magazine (1866), which presented readers with serialised sensation novels, poems, travel narratives and biographies, as well as essays on fashion, history and science.
In 2014 the Mary Elizabeth Braddon Association was founded to pay tribute to Braddon's life and work.