Lady Audley's Secret: A Sensation Novel
Jul 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Augustus Egg, Edvard Munch and James Webb. A governess with no past marries a rich baronet, and her new nephew begins to wonder what became of the friend who disappeared the week she arrived. Braddon acted on stage under a false name to keep her mother, then wrote eighty novels; this one made her fortune and defined the sensation novel — bigamy, arson and a body down a well, in the drawing rooms readers actually lived in. Fifty-five plates of portraiture, including a self portrait by Hugh Jerman, echo the novel's obsession with hidden faces and borrowed identities.
Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Augustus Egg, Edvard Munch and James Webb. A governess with no past marries a rich baronet, and her new nephew begins to wonder what became of the friend who disappeared the week she arrived. Braddon acted on stage under a false name to keep he...
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915) was an English novelist and editor. She published more than eighty books and is known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915) was an English novelist and editor. She published more than eighty books and is known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret.
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