Lady Audley’s Secret

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Lady Audley’s Secret: The Dark Side of Victorian Values and Struggles

Fans of Victorian values will love this complex and intriguing story based around the life of Lucy Graham, a beautiful and dangerous woman who marries Sir Michael Audley in the hopes of forgetting about her old life and finding refuge in a life of luxury.

Unwilling to talk much about her past, however, Lady Audley hides many dark secrets, including the fact that she had faked her name, assuming a new identity, and left her son and husband to pursue a more satisfying existence.

This complex tale is the most successful novel written by Elizabeth Braddon, and aside from being considered one of the most popular Victorian novels of the mid 1800s, it is also “the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels” – as described by critic John Sutherland more than 120 years after the novel was written.

Accidental bigamy has been somewhat of a trend in the literary works of the 1860s, and E. Braddon manages to twist an extremely complex story around the theme, making use of engaging plot twists, troubled characters with a mysterious and sometimes dangerous past, and a writing style that will keep you entranced throughout the read.

Whether you follow the adventures of Robert, as he is trying to locate the whereabouts of his friend, George – discovering Lady Audley’s true identity, or the drastic changes and disturbing decisions that Lucy herself goes through, leading her to committing abominable acts, such as attempting to kill her first husband by pushing him down a well, you will find the novel to be an elegant, impressive and extremely well-structured work of literature that has had very few similar competitors at the time of its inception.
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