Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The Doctor's Wife

Novel of a woman torn between passion for an artist and marital duty

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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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