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Full of passion and resolve, Lady Audley is a flaxen-haired beauty who hides a murderous criminal secret...Addictive and cunningly plotted, this novel will disturb and entertain. Miss Lucy Graham is a newcomer to the parish of Audley. She may be an impoverished governess, but she is also kind and ineffably beautiful. When Sir Michael Audley sets eyes upon her he finds himself in the grip of 'the terrible fever called love'. Their courtship raises many eyebrows, but Sir Audley has set his heart on the sweet-natured girl, and before long they marry. Appearances, however, can be deceptive; and Sir Michael's nephew, Robert, begins to suspect that his new aunt is not all she seems. His investigations into her murky past soon bring shocking secrets to the surface. "Lady Audley's Secret" was originally published in 1862. A 'sensation' novel featuring blackmail, bigamy and murder, its massive success made Mary Elizabeth Braddon a household name. It remains a classic Victorian spine-tingler.
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born in London. She was an extremely prolific writer, producing some seventy-five novels, the most famous of which is her first, Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which won her recognition and fortune as well. She died in 1915. Robert Giddings is a literary critic and broadcaster who regularly writes for publications including the Tribune and the Dickensian. He is the author of A Student's Guide to Charles Dickens, and co-author with Keith Selby of The Classic Serial on Television and Radio.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
To do away with the tea table is to rob a woman of her legitimate empire...,
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This review is from: Lady Audley's Secret (Crime Classics) (Paperback)
Robert Audley has qualified as a barrister but seems to prefer a life free of court restrictions and has yet to practice. He spends his time in London with his friends, or up at his Uncle's country house, Audley Court, where he spends desultory periods with perhaps a little fishing or shooting in the season. His Uncle, Michael Audley, has recently married and the young and very pretty, Lady Lucy Audley, was previously a Governess, although little is known of her background before she came to work at a nearby hall. Lady Audley's secret revolves around the strange disappearance of Robert's friend George Talboys and it is the unravelling of this puzzle that brings Lady Audley's world crashing down around her ears.The plot is every bit as good as a Wilkie Collins mystery. Professor Robert Giddings would like to claim, in his afterword to this edition, that Mrs Braddon used feminist themes to highlight some of the sexual inequalities of the time, but I don't detect them. Rather this novel seems to confirm the status quo, with it's bugbear themes of insanity, female turpitude and male competence and admirability. It is difficult to detect any great sympathies directed towards the female characters, and they seem to conform to the usual stereotypes, leaning towards extremes. That's not to say that this isn't an entirely scrumptious and hugely enjoyable read. On this showing Mary Elizabeth is the queen of Sensation novelists.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good Victorian Fun, with a bit of depth,
By Humphrey Plugg (Liverpool, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lady Audley's Secret (Crime Classics) (Paperback)
If you enjoy Victorian melodrama, or the works of Wilkie Collins, this is a highly enjoyable read. Yes, it's very predictable, in fact anyone who's read an Agatha Christie can pretty well work out the plot after only a few chapters, but where the novel scores highly is in its "feminist" subtext - well explored by Robert Giddings in the afterword to this particular edition. In fact, the most horrific thing about this novel is not the murder, intrigue or plotting which goes on but the fate of Lady Audley herself. Definitely worth reading on a long winter's evening when there's nothing on TV
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19th Century Mystery Delivers,
By Linore Burkard "Inspirational Romance Author" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lady Audley's Secret (Crime Classics) (Paperback)
I read the Kindle edition of this book which had no description. I expected an historical romance of sorts and found that it is really much morea mystery, and a crime mystery at that. Despite not being my favorite genre, there is a lot going for this book, including a lovable protagonist, some very strong surrounding cast, wonderful descriptions of a country estate and lots of other 19th century details which make the reading so interesting--at least for an historical romance author like me. The mystery is well done and made me stay up half the night to find out how it all ends. I wasn't crazy about the ending, but there is so much of England in another century here, to savor, that I may even read this again, or at least parts of it. Definitely worthwhile reading for history buffs, Anglophiles, mystery lovers, and there was, indeed, a thread of romance--thin, but there. |
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