Maud Churton Braby
English journalist
Julia Maud Churton Braby (1875 – 31 December 1932) was an English journalist and author born in China, notable for her best-sellers on love and marriage, especially Modern Marriage and How to Bear It (1908).
All of her work was published, unusually for the period, as “Maud Churton Braby” with her maiden name added before her married name.
Early life
Maud Churton’s parents, Charles Stanley Churton, an apothecary, and Emilie Hart, spinster, were married at the British Consulate in Shanghai, Empire of China, on 18 December 1869.
Their daughters Constance, Lucy Madeline, and Julia Maud, and their son Stanley Douglas, were born in China, but by 1881 the family had returned to England and settled at Paignton, Devon. Julia Maud was educated at a Church of England convent school, then later at a finishing school in Germany. Her parents were by then living in London, but her mother died in January 1899 at Lewisham. In February 1901, her father married secondly, at Ladbroke Grove, Mary Anne Elizabeth Hole, daughter of a physician, and the following year was living at Catford.
On 20 December 1902, Maud Churton married Percy Braby, a solicitor, at St Andrew’s, Ashley Place, St George Hanover Square.
Career
Braby began her writing career in journalism. In 1905 she published an interview with W. T. Stead, who had campaigned successfully for the raising of the age of consent, and in 1906 one with George Bernard Shaw about women's suffrage.
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