steel rails; among its other manufactures are
pig-iron, wire rods, wire nails, wire bale ties, lead pipe, brass and
electric signs, cement and plaster. In 1905 the value of the borough's
factory products was $4,199,079. Braddock has a Carnegie library.
Kennywood Park, near by, is a popular resort. The municipality owns and
operates the water-works. Braddock was named in honour of the English
general Edward Braddock, who in 1755 met defeat and death near the site
of the present borough at the hands of a force of French and Indians.
The borough was first settled at the close of the 18th century, and was
incorporated in 1867.

BRADDON, MARY ELIZABETH (1837- ), English novelist, daughter of Henry
Braddon, solicitor, of Skirdon Lodge, Cornwall, and sister of Sir Edward
Braddon, prime minister of Tasmania, was born in London in 1837. She
began at an early age to contribute to periodicals, and in 1861 produced
her first novel, _The Trail of the Serpent_. In the same year appeared
_Garibaldi_, accompanied by _Olivia_, and other poems, chiefly
narrative, a volume of extremely spirited verse, deserving more notice
than it has received. In 1862 her reputation as a novelist was made by a
favourable review in _The Times of Lady Audley's Secret_. _Aurora
Floyd_, a novel with a strong affinity to _Madame Bovary_, followed, and
achieved equal success. Its immediate successors, _Eleanor's Victory,
John Marchmont's Legacy, Henry Dunbar_, remain with her former works the
best-known of her novels, but all her numerous books have found a large
and appreciative public. They give, indeed, the great body of readers of
fiction exactly what they require; melodramatic in plot and character,
conventional in their views of life, they are yet distinguished by
constructive skill and opulence of invention. For a considerable time
Miss Braddon conducted _Belgravia_, in which several of her novels
appeared. In 1874 she married Mr John Maxwell, publisher, her son, W.B.
Maxwell, afterwards becoming known as a clever novelist and newspaper
correspondent.

BRADFORD, JOHN (1510?-1555), English Protestant martyr, was born at
Manchester in the early part of the reign of Henry VIII., and educated
at the local grammar school. Being a good penman and accountant, he
became secretary to Sir John Harrington, paymaster of the English
forces in France. Bradford at this time was gay and thoughtless, and to
support his extravagance he seems to have appro