In this chapter, Lady Audley greatly discusses how she would likely kill Robert Audley so he will not say anything. She states, “If he stood before me, and I could kill him…I would do it!” (Braddon, 640). She greatly fears that Robert Audley will tell everyone the truth so she describes on different methods on how to keep him silent. Also, in this chapter, Lady Audley leaves a candle lit in Phoebe Marks room so she can kill Robert Audley. She tells Phoebe that the wind blew out the fire when, in
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Lady Audley's Secret" - Is Lady Audley Mad? Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Lady Audley's Secret" was published in 1861 and was a big success: a best-seller that sold over one million copies in book form. The protagonist, Helen Maldon - also known as Helen Talboys, Lucy Graham and Lady Audley - is a poor young beautiful woman when she marries the dragoon George Talboys, but his money only lasts for one year of luxury. When he no longer is able to offer her the life she always
..help push the book to become a great novel. A great novel is always needed in order to help people not be closed-minded but to see the picture, and with this it can help us grasp or valve the importance of a great novel in life. Works Cited Braddon, M. E. Lady Audley's Secret. Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1997. Print. Doyle, Arthur C. "Sherlock Holmes Quotes - Sherlock Holmes Quotes." Sherlock Holmes Quotes - Sherlock Holmes Quotes. The Hound of the Baskervilles, 2012. Web. 28 Feb
The Style and Genre of Lady Audley’s Secret Lady Audley’s Secret, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, is a novel of many elements. It has been placed in many different style or genre categories since its publication. I feel that it best fits under the melodrama or sensational genre, and under the subgenre of mystery. It contains significant elements of both types of writing, so I feel it is best to recognize both, keeping in mind that melodrama is its main device and mystery is a type of Victorian
Analysis of Lady Audley’s Secret Mary Elizabeth Braddon broke out of the sensation novel genre by writing “lady Audley’s Secret.” While it still has many of the same traits as sensation fiction, it touched on many issues that sensation writers wouldn’t go near. The basic story is one of deception: The protagonist, Lucy Graham, grows tired of being poor and changes her identity to become Lady Audley. The novel has all the twists and turns expected within the genre: faking a death, attempted murder
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correlated directly with her personality. Special attention is given to her hair, the “most wonderful curls in the world--soft and feathery, always floating away from her face, and making a pale halo round her head when the sunlight shone through them” (Braddon 13). Lady Audley’s golden hair and clear blue eyes are incredibly feminine, as Lavater points out that “people with light hair, if not effeminate, are yet, it is well known, of tender formation and constitution” and that “Blue eyes are. generally
Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret illustrates Helen Maldon and Lady Audley’s struggle to accept their position in society, which reflect their inability to have a stable identity. Initially, Helen Maldon creates an identity as Lady Audley to seek her desire for wealth. Growing up, she did not have an upper-class up-bringing, which influences her motive for her change in status. As a result, she learns to depend on her marriage to provide the necessities in her life. When George Talboys
The Year 1837 was very significant. It was not only the year that Queen Victoria acceded the throne, but also the year that a new literary age was coined. The Victorian Age, more formally known, was a time of great prosperity in Great Britain's literature. The Victorian Age produced a variety of changes. Political and social reform produced a variety of reading among all classes. The lower-class became more self-conscious, the middle class more powerful and the rich became more vulnerable. The novels