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Annette Marie Maillard
A little-known Victorian novelist, she wrote dramatic domestic fiction full of marriage troubles, moral tests, and tangled loyalties. Her surviving books offer a glimpse of mid-19th-century popular storytelling and the social pressures women faced.
2 Audiobooks
Miles Tremenhere: A Novel. Vol. 2 of 2
by Annette Marie Maillard
Miles Tremenhere: A Novel. Vol. 1 of 2
by Annette Marie Maillard
About the author
Annette Marie Maillard was a 19th-century novelist associated with Victorian popular fiction. A record from Victorian Research identifies her as born around 1812 in Southampton and notes that she married Nicholas Doran Proby Maillard in London in 1832.
Her novels include The Compulsory Marriage, and Its Consequences, Miles Tremenhere; or, The Love Test, Matrimonial Shipwrecks; or, Mere Human Nature, and Loving and Being Loved. The titles alone give a good sense of her interests: relationships under strain, social expectations, and the emotional costs of marriage.
Although she is not widely known today, her work remains accessible through public-domain and library collections such as Wikisource and Project Gutenberg. That continued availability makes her an interesting rediscovery for listeners who enjoy forgotten Victorian fiction and sensation-tinged domestic drama.