The Lawyer's Secret
Author | : Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
Publisher | : Hesperus Classics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781843911890 |
Orphan Ellinor Arden is called from her secluded Paris home to London for the hearing of her estranged uncle’s will. To her surprise, she is named as the inheritor of his fortune, on condition that she marry his adopted son. Encouraged by her lawyer and guardian, the dashing Horace Margrave, she attaches herself irreversibly to this perfect stranger, but it soon becomes clear that her trust in a dead man’s wishes has been misplaced. Suspense-ridden sensation fiction from a master of the art, The Lawyer’s Secret and the counterpart piece presented here, "Mystery at Fernwood," are particularly valuable for affording a rare female take on an art form still dominated by the male viewpoint.
Henry Dunbar
Author | : Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Forgery |
ISBN | : |
Beyond Sensation
Author | : Marlene Tromp |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1999-12-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1438422334 |
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, journal editor and bestselling author of more than eighty novels during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was a key figure in the Victorian literary scene. This volume brings together new essays from a variety of perspectives that illuminate both the richness of Braddon's oeuvre and the variety of critical approaches to it. Best known as the author of Lady Audley's Secret and Aurora Floyd, Braddon also wrote penny dreadfuls, realist novels, plays, short stories, reviews, and articles. The contributors move beyond her two most famous works and reflect a range of current issues and approaches, including gender, genre, imperialism, colonial reception, commodity culture, and publishing history. Contributors include Jennifer Carnell, Jeni Curtis, Pamela K. Gilbert, Lauren Goodlad, Aeron Haynie, Heidi Holder, Gail Turley Houston, Heidi H. Johnson, Toni Johnson-Woods, James R. Kincaid, Elizabeth Langland, Eve Lynch, Graham Law, Katherine Montweiler, Lillian Nayder, Lyn Pykett, and Tabitha Sparks, and Marlene Tromp.
Dead Love Has Chains
Author | : Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Marriage |
ISBN | : |
Lady Audley's Secret
Author | : Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
Publisher | : Lindhardt og Ringhof |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2022-12-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8728395719 |
‘Lady Audley's Secret’ by Mary Elizabeth Braddon is a Victorian sensation novel and her most famous and well-known work. In this story, which combines elements from detective novels, psychological thrillers, and romance, the heroine Lady Audley is living an upper-class life with seemingly no secrets. Soon, however, truths of bigamy, arson, and murder are uncovered, as the assumptions of femininity are challenged. This novel will surely delight fans of Thomas Hardy’s ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’. Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a popular English novelist writing in the Victorian era. She is best known for her sensation novel ‘Lady Audley's Secret’, published in 1862, which has been dramatised for TV and film several times. While this was the novel that found her fortune as a bestseller, Braddon continued to publish works until her death in 1915, penning several works of supernatural fiction, ghost stories, and historical fiction.