This early work by Mary Elizabeth Braddon was originally published in
1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new biography of the
author. 'His Darling Sin' is one of Braddon's novels in the sensation
literature genre. Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born in Soho, London,
England in 1835. She was educated privately in England and France, and
at the age of just nineteen was offered a commission by a local printer
to produce a serial novel combining the humour of Dickens with the plot
and construction of G. P. R. Reynolds What emerged was Three Times dead,
or The Secret of the Heath, which was published five years later under
the title The Trail of the Serpent (1861). For the rest of her life,
Braddon was an extremely prolific writer, producing more than eighty
novels, while also finding time to write and act in a number of stage
plays.