Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Jewish World, 1880-1915

Ruth Morriss new book focuses on Mary Elizabeth Braddons novels from 1880 to her death in 1915 and how the portrayal of Jewish characters and Jewish culture shifts throughout this timeframe. By tracing the fortunes of Anglo-Jewry through Braddons fiction into the twentieth century, it draws contextually on significant world events such as the Boer War, the beginning of the Zionist movement and the...