
" I]t belongs with her very best novels ... marks a new departure in its bold and delicate exploration of human psychology and in its economy of style." - Robert Lee Wolff Pregnant and unmarried, seventeen-year-old Irene Thelliston has been sent home from India in disgrace...


A locked room, a vanished woman, and a secret that festers in the heart of a sprawling Irish estate-here, the boundaries between love and obsession blur with devastating consequences. In the shadowed corridors of Victorian literature, few works delve as unflinchingly into the...

This early work by Mary Elizabeth Braddon was originally published in 1907 and we are now republishing it with a brand new biography of the author. 'Dead Love Has Chains' is one of Braddon's novels in the sensation literature genre. Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born in Soho, London,...