Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Lady Audley's Secret

Mystery novel of a woman concealing a dark past behind respectable appearance

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Braddon was the queen of Victorian sensation fiction, whose Lady Audley's Secret was the most scandalous bestseller of 1862. She produced an astonishing body of work that engaged seriously with women's constrained social position.

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