The Golden Calf

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A mind-blowing tale about the youthful adventures of Ida Palliser as she hunts for luck and romance in England’s Gentry Class. Victorian astonishing novels always took place in simple, mundane background, disrupting the recognized attachment to social anathema. They revealed the real-life accounts of Victorian England’s upper class – lives they attempted to conceal.

The Golden Calf contains: The Articled Pupil; ‘I am going to Marry for money’; At the Knoll; Wendover Abbey; Dr. Rylance Asserts Himself; A Birthday Feast; In the River-Meadow; At the Lock-House; A Solemn League and Covenant; A Bad Penny; Accomplishments at a Discount; The Sword of Damocles; Kingthorpe Society; The True Knight; Mr. Wendover Plans An Excursion; Thicker than Water; Ought She to Stay?; After a Storm Comes a Calm; After a Calm a Storm; Was this the Motive?; Taking Life Quietly; Lady Palliser Studies the Upper Ten; ‘All our Life is Mixed with Death’; ‘Fruits Fail and Love Dies and Time Ranges’; ‘My seed was youth, my crop was endless care’; ‘And, if i die, no soul will pity me’; John Jardine Solves the Mystery; An Englishman’s House is his Castle; ‘As One Dead in the Bottom of a Tomb’; A Fiery Dawn; and ‘Sole partner and sole part of all these joys’.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a British famous writer of the Victorian times. She is highly recognized for her 1862 awe-inspiring novella Lady Audley’s Secret.

Mary Elizabeth was born in London and privately tutored. Her mother Fanny disunited from her father Henry, when Mary was only 5 years old. At the age of 10, her sibling Edward Braddon departed for India and then Australia, where he was Premier of Tasmania. She performed as an actress for 3 years when she was made friends with Clara and Adelaide Biddle. They were just performing inferior stints yet Mary could provide for herself and her mother. Adelaide commented that Mary’s fascination in dramatizing drew to a close as she focused on her literary career.
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