Lady Audley and Alicia avoid each other, which is easy because the house is huge. This daughter, Alicia, resents her stepmother for usurping Alicia’s role as lady of the house. Everyone adores the new Lady Audley, who is sweet, beautiful, and passive (she is constantly described in infantilizing terms).Įveryone, that is, but Sir Audley’s grown-up daughter from a previous marriage.
It begins by introducing Lucy Graham, a young, beautiful governess, who marries the much older and very rich Sir Michael Audley. Lady Audley’s Secret was published in three-volume form in 1862, after initially being published as a serial story for magazines.
That made for a great reading experience but it will make for a superficial review considering all the meaty stuff in this book that we could happily analyze for days if I had just slowed down long enough to use some post-it notes instead of flipping pages like a squirrel on cocaine. I’m going to pay Lady Audley’s Secret the highest compliment I can pay a sensation novel: I kept finding great passages to bookmark but I didn’t bookmark them because I didn’t want to stop reading long enough to do so.
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