Lady Audley's Secret (World's Classics) - Softcover

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This novel, with its most untypically forceful heroine, can be seen as an anticipation of Ibsen's great dramas, and as an unabashed bid for freedom from the constraints of Victorian womanhood.

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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.

About the Author:
Eminent English novelist, dramatist, short-story writer, editor and actress. Braddon wrote more than 70 novels, many of them acclaimed bestsellers, in her life time. Her novels are known for their element of sensationalism.

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  • PublisherOxford Univ Pr (T)
  • Publication date1987
  • ISBN 10 0192817418
  • ISBN 13 9780192817419
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages496
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