09.45 – 11.00 Panel 1: Braddon in Manuscript and in Print

Gabrielle Malcolm (Edge Hill College):
Reading Braddon’s Unpublished Short Story, ‘Circumambulatory: Or the adventures of three gentlemen and a lady in search of a British public’

“Papers found in a Trunk”: A Critical Summary of the Braddon Family Manuscript Collection

Randolph Ivy (Randolph-Macon Woman’s College):
Publishing Braddon in One Volume in the 1860s

11.00 – 11.15 Refreshments

11.15 – 12.30 Panel 2: Gender and Genre

Anne-Marie Beller (Loughborough University):
Centring the Marginal in The Trail of the Serpent (1860)

Kate Mattacks (University of Worcester):
Braddon on Trial: Reputation, Respectability and Courtroom Drama in His Darling Sin (1899)

Claudio Di Vaio (Independent Scholar):
“Wrapped round with a cloud of fear”: Mary Braddon and the Victorian Supernatural

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 14.45 Panel 3: Sensational Braddon

Valerie Pedlar (Open University):
A Lost Eden? Mary Braddon’s Theatrical World

Andrew Mangham (University of Sheffield):
Crime, Toxicology and Braddon’s Fictional Poisonings

Beth Palmer (Oxford University):
“Strong Measures” in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Belgravia Magazine

14.45 – 15.00 Refreshments

15.00 – 16.00 Panel 4: Beyond Sensation?

Clare Broome Saunders (Durham University):
“Now it is no knight of romance riding down the forest glades”: Medievalism and Marriage in Braddon’s Garibaldi and Other Poems (1861)

Elizabeth Adams (University of Nottingham):
Mary (1916): Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Novel in Typescript

16.00 – 17.15 Panel 5: Revisionist Braddon

Laura Daniels (University of Exeter):
Mary Braddon and Madame Bovary

Laurie Garrison (Royal Holloway/British Library):
“There’s nothing I haven’t done – on paper”: Sex, Subjectivity and Sensation Novelists in the Marketplace

Georgina O’Brien (University of Chester):
‘Courting the Fallen Woman: M. E. Braddon’s Flirtation with Scandal in The Lovels of Arden (1871)

17.15 Wine Reception