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Lady Audley's Secret Paperback - 1998

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon; Introduction by Russell Crofts; Jenny Bourne Taylor (Editor)


Summary

Lady Audley’s Secret epitomized the scandalous and irresistible "sensation" fiction of the period and established Braddon as the doyenne of the genre. Lady Audley, a beautiful woman with a mysterious past, serves as a commentary on the rise of the middle class and the consumer culture, and her fate reflects the public’s fascination with psychological theories about the nature of identity and the definition of madness.

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Weathering critical scorn, Lady Audley's Secret quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, sharing the honour only with Wilkie Collins. Addictive, cunningly plotted and certainly sensational, Lady Audley's Secret draws on contemporary theories of insanity to probe mid-Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumer culture. What is the mystery surrounding the charming heroine? Lady Audley's secret is investigated by Robert Audley, aristocrat turned detective, in a novel that has lost none of its power to disturb and entertain.

First line

IT lay low down in a hollow, rich with fine old timber and luxuriant pastures; and you came upon it through an avenue of limes, bordered on either side by meadows, over the high hedges of which the cattle looked inquisitively at you as you passed, wondering, perhaps, what you wanted; for there was no thoroughfare, and unless you were going to the Court you had no business there at all.

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Weathering critical scorn, Lady Audley's Secret (1862) quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, sharing the honour only with Wilkie Collins. Addictive, cunningly plotted and certainly sensational, Lady Audley's Secret draws on contemporary theories of insanity to probe mid-Victorian anxiety and the doubts that accompanied the rapid rise of consumer culture. What is the mystery surrounding Mary Elizabeth Braddon's artful and charming heroine? Lady Audley's secret is investigated by Robert Audley, aristocrat turned detective, in a novel that has lost none of its power to disturb and entertain.

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  • Title Lady Audley's Secret
  • Author Mary Elizabeth Braddon; Introduction by Russell Crofts; Jenny Bourne Taylor (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition REPRINT
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, New York
  • Date October 1, 1998
  • ISBN 9780140435849 / 0140435840
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.96 x 5.08 x 0.79 in (20.22 x 12.90 x 2.01 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1170
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Mary E Braddon (1835-1915) began writing at the age of eight but it was not until she won an admirer as an actress that she could settle down to write serial fiction. She became a bestselling 'sensation' author and was read avidly by Tennyson, Dickens and Thackery. She wrote over eighty novels. Jenny Bourne Taylor studied at York and Warwick universities and is currently a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex. She has published widely.
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