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Lady Audley's Secret

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon · 1862

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This Victorian bestseller, along with Braddon's other famous novel, Aurora Floyd, established her as the main rival of the master of the sensational novel, Wilkie Collins. A protest against the passive, insipid 19th-century heroine, Lady Audley was described by one critic of the time as "high-strung, full of passion, purpose, and movement." Her crime (the secret of the title) is shown to threaten the apparently respectable middle-class world of Victorian England.

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British mysteryBritish mysteryMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thisVictorianVictorianMore like thisLess of thiscrimecrimeMore like thisLess of this
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gothicgothicMore like thisLess of thiswomenwomenMore like thisLess of thismurdermurderMore like thisLess of this
Setting
VictorianVictorianMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of thiscollegecollegeMore like thisLess of thisBritishBritishMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
long · 455 pages

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