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Aurora Floyd de Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Aurora Floyd: Yellowbacks

Autor Mary Elizabeth Braddon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 noi 2025
A newlywed with a deadly secret
Aurora Floyd’s the spoiled, only daughter of rich widower Archibald Floyd; the result of his scandalous marriage to a penurious actress. Aurora grows up a renowned beauty, known locally as ‘fast’ for her unladylike habits – hunting and riding horses – she however is undaunted and confident. But after her return from a French finishing-school, Aurora returns oddly changed, gaunt, worried as if harbouring some terrible secret. Time passes, Aurora’s engaged to be married but her past threatens to ruin her chance of happiness.
Braddon’s follow up to the immensely successful Lady Audley’s Secret is a once both a mystery and the moving coming-of-age story of a young woman carrying the burden of a past with bad decisions.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789357310710
ISBN-10: 9357310711
Pagini: 576
Dimensiuni: 124 x 184 x 46 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Hachette India
Seria Yellowbacks

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

P. D. Edwards is Darnell Professor of English at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is also the editor of several Trollope titles in World's Classics.

Recenzii

Aurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as ‘sensation fiction’—a tradition in which the key texts include Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, Ellen Wood’s East Lynne, and Dickens’s Great Expectations. When Aurora Floyd was first published in serial form in 1862-63, Fraser’s magazine asserted that “a book without a murder, a divorce, a seduction, or a bigamy, is not apparently considered either worth writing or reading; and a mystery and a secret are the chief qualifications of the modern novel.”
The novel depicts a heroine trapped in an abusive and adulterous marriage, and effectively dramatizes the extra-legal pressures which kept many such unhappy marriages out of the courts: fear of personal scandal, and of betraying one’s family through the publicity and expense of the process. Aurora’s bigamous marriage dramatizes the need for expeditious divorce without the enormous social cost, but the overt sexuality of the heroine shocked contemporary critics. “What is held up to us as the story of the feminine soul as it really exists underneath its conventional coverings, is a very fleshy and unlovely record,” wrote Margaret Oliphant.
Braddon’s text is studded with references to contemporary events (the Crimean War, the Divorce Act of 1857) and the text has been carefully annotated for modern readers in this edition, which also includes a range of documents designed to help set the text in context.

“This is the only modern edition to be based on the first three-volume version of Braddon’s much revised novel, and the editors make an excellent case for their choice. A substantial and lucidly written critical introduction situates the novel in its contemporary cultural contexts; in debates about realism and sensationalism, and anxieties about class, femininity, domesticity and marriage. The appendices, containing a selection of contemporary views of femininity and domesticity, and responses to Braddon and her novel, are an added bonus to this excellent volume.” — Lyn Pykett, University of Wales-Aberystwyth
“Invaluable … provides copious explanatory notes, appendices containing contemporary reviews and writings on femininity, and a thorough, well-organized introduction.” — Times Literary Supplement

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Brief Chronology

Aurora Floyd
Appendix A: Victorian Femininity: The Stable, the Home, and the Fast Young Lady

  1. “Fast Young Ladies” (Punch)
  2. “Six Reasons Why Ladies Should Not Hunt” (The Field)
  3. “Muscular Education” (Temple Bar)
  4. John Ruskin, “Of Queens’ Gardens” (Sesame and Lilies) (1865)
Appendix B: Reviews and Responses

  1. H.L. Mansel, “Sensation Novels” (Quarterly Review)
  2. “The Archbishop of York on Works of Fiction” (The Times)
  3. W. Fraser Rae, “Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon” (North British Review)
  4. Henry James, “Miss Braddon” (The Nation)
  5. Margaret Oliphant, “Novels” (Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine)
  6. George Augustus Sala, “The Cant of Modern Criticism” (Belgravia)
  7. George Augustus Sala, “On the ‘Sensational’ in Literature and Art” (Belgravia)
  8. “Sensation Novels” (Punch)
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