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Lady Audley's Secret

M. E. Braddon

Publisher: Aeneas Press

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Summary

Mary Elizabeth Braddon acted on the stage under a false name to support her mother, then wrote eighty novels — and this is the one that made her fortune and defined the sensation genre. A lovely governess with no past marries a rich baronet, and her new nephew begins to wonder what became of the friend who vanished the very week she arrived. Bigamy, arson, and a body down a well, all in the respectable drawing rooms readers actually lived in. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates.
Available since: 07/22/2026.
Print length: 549 pages.

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