Lady Audley's Secret
By M. E. Braddon
Cover: Lady Lilith (1866-68), oil on canvas by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1882)
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Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published on 1 October 1862. It was Braddon's most successful and well-known novel. Critic John Sutherland (1989) described the work as "the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels". The plot centres on "accidental bigamy" which was in literary fashion in the early 1860s. The plot was summarised by literary critic Elaine Showalter (1982): "Braddon's bigamous heroine deserts her child, pushes husband number one down a well, thinks about poisoning husband number two and sets fire to a hotel in which her other male acquaintances are residing".
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Table of contents
- 1: Chapter 1
- 2: On Board the Argus
- 3: Hidden Relics
- 4: In the First Page of "The Times."
- 5: The Headstone at Ventnor
- 6: Anywhere, Anywhere Out of the World
- 7: After a Year
- 8: Before the Storm
- 9: After the Storm
- 10: Chapter 10
- 11: The Mark upon My Lady's Wrist
- 12: Still Missing
- 13: Troubled Dreams
- 14: Phoebe's Suitor
- 15: On the Watch
- 16: Robert Audley Gets His Conge
- 17: At the Castle Inn
- 18: Robert Receives a Visitor Whom He Had Scarcely Expected
- 19: The Writing in the Book
- 20: Mrs. Plowson
- 21: Little Georgey Leaves His Old Home
- 22: Coming to a Standstill
- 23: Chapter 23
- 24: George's Letters
- 25: Retrograde Investigation
- 26: So Far and No Farther
- 27: Beginning at the Other End
- 28: Hidden in the Grave
- 29: In the Lime-Walk
- 30: Preparing the Ground
- 31: Phoebe's Petition
- 32: The Red Light in the Sky
- 33: The Bearer of the Tidings
- 34: My Lady Tells the Truth
- 35: The Hush That Succeeds the Tempest
- 36: Dr. Mosgrave's Advice
- 37: Buried Alive
- 38: Chapter 38
- 39: That Which the Dying Man Had to Tell
- 40: Chapter 40
- 41: At Peace