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Mary elizabeth braddon s first novel, lady audley s secret, was one of the most popular english novels of its day. Classed as a sensation novel, lady audleys secret tells the story of lady audley, a protest against the usual passive 19thcentury heroine. Finding herself at the centre of an investigation into the disappearance of a local man, the beautiful yet mysterious lady audley must use all her deceit and cunning to prevent the truth being discovered. Braddon was the third child born to mother, fanny white braddon and solicitor henry braddon junior. Rereading braddon s lady audley s secret gave me an odd twinge of sympathy with the killjoys of the victorian age not so much with their moral outrage, but with their recognition that these. Braddon s mother left her father, a solicitor, when braddon was four years old. Lady audleys secret summary from litcharts the creators.
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