SENSATION FICTION

Part 1: Diaries, Notebooks and Literary Manuscripts of Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin

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Before the Knowledge of Evil (Manuscript novel)
Emile Zola and the Naturalistic School; or, Realism in French Literature (Essay)
Miscellaneous notes
The Wife (Manuscript extract from Play and other material relating to plays)
Letters
The Good Hermione, A story for the Jubilee Year by Aunt Belinda (Manuscript Story)
The Little Woman in Black (Story)
Joshua Haggards Daughter (page proof, insertions and large portions of original manuscripts)
At Daggers Drawn (Story)

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A Life Interest (Play)
Fragment of a play
Maria Jones. Her Book (Story)
Mary (Typescript Novel with manuscript notes and insertions)
Sketchbook
The Missing Witness: An Original Drama (Printed Play with manuscript corrections)
People who write to the Times (Story)

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Run to Earth (Story)
Autographs
The Ubiquitous Man (Story)
A Grey Day (Story)
Fragments
Tom Pearsons Last Party (Story)
Letters

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7 Notebooks:
a) Miscellaneous notes on Flaubert, Don Quixote, Huxley, Mirabeau and other subjects. Much in French. Includes "A Drawing Room in Berlin." Part indexed at end of volume.

b) Miscellaneous notes on African explorers (Livingstone and Burton), Schillers death, Kants philosophy, Kings and Queens, Shakespeare, and extracts from William James. Part indexed at end of volume.

c) Miscellaneous notes on colloquial Hindostani, the Bible, Shakespeare, Dryden, Wordsworth and diary entries for 1 Oct 1900 and 1 Sep 1905. Part indexed at end of volume.

d) Miscellaneous notes on Napoleon, his army, Waterloo and "Lydia Langrish: A Play."

e) Miscellaneous notes on cricket, essays, stories and plays.

f) List of titles for books and plays and literary extracts from Scott, Keats, Browning, Dickens and other writers, including French, German and Classical authors.

g) Plot notes, records of Florence, Venice, and other parts of Italy, notes on Plato, notes on Jowett, jottings on classical legends and other matters. Part indexed at end of volume.

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Letters from Barrie, Dicksee, Hardy, Reade, Ritchie and others
Autographs, Additional letters, Photographs, Drawings and Illustrations for her novels

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M E Braddon diaries - 1890 -1893

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M E Braddon diaries - 1894 -1896

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M E Braddon diaries - 1897 -1902

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M E Braddon diaries - 1903 -1908

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M E Braddon diaries - 1909 -1914