Lady Audley's Secret
, by Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (Author); Crofts, Russell (Introduction by); Taylor, Jenny Bourne (Editor)- ISBN: 9780140435849 | 0140435840
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/1/1998
This Victorian bestseller, along with Braddon's other famous novel, Aurora Floyd, established her as the main rival of the master of the sensational novel, Wilkie Collins. A protest against the passive, insipid 19th-century heroine, Lady Audley was described by one critic of the time as"high-strung, full of passion, purpose, and movement." Her crime (the secret of the title) is shown to threaten the apparently respectable middle-class world of Victorian England.