This early work by Mary Elizabeth Braddon was originally published in
1886 and we are now republishing it with a brand new biography of the
author. 'Mohawks' 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.