ABSTRACT
In 1874 Mary Elizabeth Braddon was at last able to marry John Maxwell, following the death of his unfortunate wife in a mental home. Afterwards, other publishers took the novels of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, mostly by arrangement with her friend John Maxwell; but for a period in the 1860s under compulsion of a business arrangement with Ward & Lock in which he was embroiled, he was compelled to accept them as her publishers. The Mary Elizabeth Braddon period came at the start of their business partnership, and seems to have been one of harmony and cheerfulness for the two William Tinsley brothers: there was little that could have been a cause of disagreement between them. Both young men were happily married, William in Kennington, and Edward about to move into his comparatively lavish property south of the river.
