- Fiction, Married women, Deception, Bigamy
<p><i>Lady Audley’s Secret</i> was the most successful of a long series of novels written by <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/m-e-braddon">Mary Elizabeth Braddon</a> in what was then called the “sensation” genre because of the inventive and slightly scandalous plots of such works.</p> <p>Published in 1862, <i>Lady Audley’s Secret</i> was immediately popular and is said to have made a fortune for its author.
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- gravecomic
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- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- First published
- 1862
- Pages
- 238
- Publisher
- Penguin Books--Virago Press, IndyPublish, S.H. Goetzel
- Editions
- 221
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781420934045
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“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.”
A prolific English writer of the Victorian era, she led a very complex life (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Elizabeth_Braddon>Wikipedia</a>).
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