# Lady Audley's Secret - Paperback

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by **Mary Elizabeth Braddon** (Author), **Rachel Vorona Cote** (With), **Sarah Weinman** (With)

Part of the **Smith & Taylor Classics** series, this elegant edition revives one of Victorian literature's most thrilling and subversive novels.

**Lucy Graham, radiantly beautiful, born to poverty, and Sir Michael Audley, aging aristocratic widower and fabulously wealthy, are married soon after first glance.**

Life is peaceful at old Audley Court until the arrival of Robert Audley- Sir Michael's nephew- and his friend George Talboys, who is home again after making his fortune in Australia.

When George mysteriously disappears, Robert takes it upon himself to find him again. Developing a detective's eye, following disturbing clue after clue, Robert becomes convinced his alluring Aunt Lucy isn't as innocent, or possibly as sane, as she seems.

_Lady Audley's Secret_ first appeared in _Robin Goodfellow_ magazine in 1861, establishing it as a "sensational" novel to rival Wilkie Collins' _The Woman in White_ (1860). A cunningly plotted mystery novel as sensual as a Pre-Raphaelite portrait, _Lady Audley's Secret_ probes mid-Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumerism with the invention of one of literature's great villainesses who goes to great lengths to secure her greatest desires.

Featuring a conversational afterword from writers Sarah Weinman and Rachel Vorona Cote.

### Author Biography

**Mary Elizabeth Braddon** (1835-1915) began writing at the age of eight but it was not until she won an admirer as an actress that she could settle down to write serial fiction. She became a bestselling 'sensation' author and was read avidly by Tennyson, Dickens and Thackery. She wrote over eighty novels.

**Rachel Vorona Cote** is the author of _TOO MUCH: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today_. She has written essays and criticisms for _The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The Atlantic, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Poetry Foundation, Lapham's Quarterly_, and _The Washington Post_, and a number of other publications. In a past life, she was ABD at the University of Maryland, where she studied Victorian literature. She lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C.

**Sarah Weinman** is the author of three books: _Without Consent_, forthcoming in 2025; _Scoundrel_, named a Best Book of 2022 by Time, Esquire, CBC, and NPR and a NYT Editor's Choice; and _The Real Lolita_, named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, BuzzFeed, _The National Post_, _Literary Hub_, the _San Francisco Chronicle_, and Vulture, and winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Award in Nonfiction. Weinman writes the monthly Crime & Mystery column for the _New York Times Book Review_. Weinman also writes (albeit more sporadically) the "Crime Lady" newsletter, covering crime fiction, true crime, and all points in between. She lives in New York City.

**Number of Pages:** 500

**Dimensions:** 1.3 x 7.7 x 5 IN

**Publication Date:** May 06, 2025

## Details

- **Price:** 24.95 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Classics, Fiction, Historical, Mystery & Detective, Price Written on Book, Psychological, Thrillers

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