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Lady Audley's Secret de Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Lady Audley's Secret

Autor Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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"The most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels," according to the famous literary critic John Sutherland.

Wealthy estate owner sir Michael Audley willingly marries a gold-digger, his only daughter Alicia's governess Lucy n e Gray. Sir Michael's dashing, in-living orphaned nephew Robert 'Bob' returns from an Australia gold rush adventure with his new best friend George Talboys, a young father who finds his wife died in their absence. Robert is instantly attracted to Lucy, who buries her past with George by leaving him drowning in a well. Maid Phoebe's boyfriend finds out Lucy's secret and blackmails her. Later Robert comes on the trace of the truth, while accepting to marry Alicia as Michael seems infertile. But after Robert tells Michael, the consequences and the extent of deception exceed their imagination.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781547090099
ISBN-10: 154709009X
Pagini: 634
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.92 kg

Notă biografică

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) first burst onto the public scene at the age of eight when she played the role of 'Fairy Pineapple' in a pantomime. In a long career of overwhelming activity she edited magazines and wrote at least seventy-five novels, including such unrevived works as The Octoroon, Publicans and Sinners and Dead-Sea Fruit but also including the phenomenal Lady Audley's Secret which made her, at the age of twenty-seven, rich for life.

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'it only rests with yourself to become Lady Audley, and the mistress of Audley Court'When beautiful young Lucy Graham accepts the hand of Sir Michael Audley, her fortune and her future look secure. But Lady Audley's past is shrouded in mystery, and to Sir Michael's nephew Robert, she is not all that she seems. When his good friend George Talboys suddenly disappears, Robert is determined to find him, and to unearth the truth. His quest reveals a tangled story of lies and deception, crime and intrigue, whose sensational twists turn the conventional picture of Victorian womanhood on its head. Can Robert's darkest suspicions really be true?Lady Audley's Secret was an immediate bestseller, and readers have enjoyed its thrilling plot ever since its first publication in 1862. This new edition explores Braddon's portrait of her scheming heroine in the context of the nineteenth-century sensation novel and the lively, often hostile debates it provoked. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Recenzii

Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) was one of the most widely read novels in the Victorian period. The novel exemplifies “sensation fiction” in featuring a beautiful criminal heroine, an amateur detective, blackmail, arson, violence, and plenty of suspenseful action. To its contemporary readers, it also offered the thrill of uncovering blackmail and criminal violence within the homes of the upper class. The novel makes trenchant critiques of Victorian gender roles and social stereotypes, and it creates significant sympathy for the heroine, despite her criminal acts, as she suffers from the injustices of the “marriage market” and rebels against them.
This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a broad selection of primary source material, including reproductions of the twenty-two woodcut illustrations from the London Journal serialization of the novel, extracts from two Victorian dramatizations of the work, satirical commentaries, and contemporary reviews.

“This impressive, scholarly new edition brings together a wealth of supplementary material, much of which is almost unobtainable elsewhere. Several fascinating appendices include contemporary parodies of the novel, extracts from stage versions, contemporary criticism and well-chosen extracts from Braddon’s other work. Natalie Houston’s scholarly introduction provides useful insights into Braddon’s life and work. This edition will be invaluable to anyone studying or teaching the novel, or just reading it for enjoyment.” — Chris Willis, Birkbeck College
“This intelligent edition offers a wonderful introduction not just to Lady Audley’s Secret, but to the whole publishing phenomenon of sensation fiction. By emphasizing questions of alterable identity, the new Victorian culture of information, and the relationship of fiction to other media, Natalie Houston compellingly brings home the connection of this novel with many important issues today.” — Kate Flint, Rutgers University

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Lady Audley’s Secret
Appendix A: The Serialization of Lady Audley’s Secret
  1. The Serial Texts of Lady Audley’s Secret
  2. The Illustrations from The London Journal
Appendix B: Dramatizations
  1. George Roberts, Lady Audley’s Secret. A Drama in Two Acts (1863)
  2. William E. Suter, Lady Audley’s Secret. A Drama in Two Acts (1871)
Appendix C: Satires
  1. “Rhymes for the Very Young,” Punch (11 April 1863)
  2. Thomas Hood,“Maurora Maudley; or Bigamy and Buttons,” Beeton’s Christmas Annual (1864)
  3. “Sensation! A Satire,” Dublin University Magazine (January 1864)
Appendix D: Reviews
  1. [Eneas Sweetland Dallas,] The Times, 18 November 1862
  2. The Spectator, 1791 (1862)
  3. “Our Female Sensation Novelists,” Christian Remembrancer 46 (1863)
  4. “Our Survey of Literature and Science,” Cornhill Magazine 7( January 1863)
  5. [H.L. Mansel,] “Sensation Novels,” Quarterly Review 113 (April 1863)
Appendix E: The New Criminal Heroine
  1. Eliza Lynn Linton, “Little Women,” Saturday Review 25 (April 1868)
  2. E.S. Dallas, The Gay Science (1866)
Appendix F: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Penny Fiction
  1. Lady Caroline Lascelles (pseud.), The Black Band; or, The Mysteries of Midnight (1861)
  2. Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The Doctor’s Wife (1864)
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