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Lady Audley's Secret
by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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