Aurora Floyd

Like Lady Audley, Aurora is a beautiful young woman bigamously married and threatened with exposure by a blackmailer. But in Aurora Floyd, and in many of the novels written in imitation of it, bigamy is little more than a euphemism, a device to enable the heroine, and vicariously the reader, to enjoy the forbidden sweets of adultery without adulterous intentions. Passionate, sometimes violent, Aurora does succeed in enjoying them, her desires scarcely chastened by her disastrous first marriage. She represents a challenge to the mid-Victorian sexual code, and particularly to the feminine ideal of simpering, angelic young ladyhood. P. D. Edward's introduction evaluates the novel's leading place among 'bigamy-novels' and Braddon's treatment of the power struggle between the sexes, as well as considering the similarities between the author and her heroine.

Introduction	p. vii
Note ON THE TEXT	p. xxiii
Select Bibliography	p. xxv
A Chronology Of Mary Elizabeth Braddon	p. xxvi
How a Rich Banker Married an Actress	p. 5
Aurora	p. 18
Aurora	p. 25
Aurora	p. 37
Aurora	p. 49
Aurora	p. 61
Aurora	p. 74
Aurora	p. 88
How Talbot Bulstrode Spent His Christmas	p. 99
Fighting the Battle	p. 108
Fighting the Battle	p. 120
Fighting the Battle	p. 126
Fighting the Battle	p. 141
Fighting the Battle	p. 153
Mr Pastern's Letter	p. 164
Mr James Conyers	p. 172
Mr James Conyers	p. 184
Mr James Conyers	p. 196
Money Matters	p. 214
Captain Prodder	p. 232
on the Threshold of Darker Miseries	p. 270
on the Threshold of Darker Miseries	p. 277
the Deed That Had Been Done in the Wood	p. 291
at the Golden Lion	p. 312
at the Golden Lion	p. 325
at the Golden Lion	p. 333
at the Golden Lion	p. 344
at the Golden Lion	p. 357
at the Golden Lion	p. 363
Captain Prodder Goes Back to Doncaster	p. 376
the Discovery of the Weapon with Which James Conyers Had Been Slain	p. 391
the Discovery of the Weapon with Which James Conyers Had Been Slain	p. 398
the Discovery of the Weapon with Which James Conyers Had Been Slain	p. 414
the Discovery of the Weapon with Which James Conyers Had Been Slain	p. 422
the Discovery of the Weapon with Which James Conyers Had Been Slain	p. 431
Talbot Bulstrode Makes Atonement for the Past	p. 443
Explanatory Notes	p. 460
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