MISS BRADDON IN TROUBLE.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 189, 16 January 1875, Page 3

MISS BRADDON IN TROUBLE.

A curious and, I may say, characteristic incident has happened to Miss Braddon, the novelist. Having, like so many of her heroines, committed a species of bigamjr, she has at last been found out , I say a * species of bigamy,’ because, far from becoming the wife of two husbands, all Miss Braddon did was to go through some facetious form of marriage with a man who was already married. She thus became, not indeed a bigamist, but, at least, an accomplice in bigamy. Well, a few weeks ago, Mr Maxwell, Miss Braddon’s publisher, and soidisant husband, lost his legitimate wife, who died, I believe, in a lunatic asylum. That, in a novel, would have solved the difficulty. In real life, however, it has had quite a contrary effect. Mr Knowles, the eminent architect, editor of the Contemporary Review, designer of the Leicester Square Garden, and 1 do not know what besides, happened to be thebrother of the first Mrs Maxwell ; and he, in the ordinary course of things but undoubtedly with a special purpose, caused the death of his sister, “ wife of Mr Maxwell, of Richmond, publisher,” to be announced in the newspapers. Many persons thought Miss Braddon was no more; and probably Mr Maxwell received letters of condolence on the subject. In any case he sent a circular to his friends disclaiming all knowledge of the circumstances under which the death of Mrs Maxwell had been “ maliciously announced;” but (of necessity) without furnishing any explanation to the mystery. To this Mr Knowles has replied by another circular, in which he reproduces telegrams from Mr Maxwell expressing regret at the news of his wife’s death, and giving orders for the funeral, which is to be managed economically. The indignant brother has sent those circulars out in such large numbers that there can be no impropriety in my informing you of their contents. —New York Times.