On 9 November 1865 the young Henry James published an essay in The Nation titled "Miss Braddon." The occasion was the runaway success of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's fifth novel, Aurora Floyd (1863). James placed Aurora Floyd and Lady Audley's Secret (1862),...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, a popular and successful Victorian novelist, mounted an audacious challenge to the codes of literary propriety. A major force in the development of the modern crime novel, she turned conventional morality on its head by describing...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, later Mrs. John Maxwell, is still best known as "the author of Lady Audley's Secret ," to quote the standard publisher's rubric that followed her around on title pages throughout her long career. Although she eventually wrote at l...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, edited by Natalie M. Houston (Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 2003), ISBN 1551113570, 510pp., £6.00 pb. There is a good range of supplementary materials provided in this Broadview edition of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's most famous work, which it is...
IN AN act of bravado, Nancy Dell'Olio - England football coach Sven Goran Eriksson's lover - stole the limelight during the team's recent visit to Downing Street. The 43-year-old Italian's fashion coup sent a defiant message to her love rival Ulrika Jonsson, who is...
In the following essay, Cvetkovich examines the subversive implications of the sensational novels' upper-class settings, particularly in Lady Audley's Secret.
In the following essay, Briganti discusses the ways in which Lady Audley is and is not a typical sensation novel villainess and Braddon's ambivalence toward her character.
In the following essay, Matus argues that the conclusion of madness in Lady Audley's Secret serves as a distraction from the gender and class issues raised throughout the novel.
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