Aurora Floyd
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Aurora Floyd is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published on 1 January 1863. It is thematically similar to her highly popular novel Lady Audley's Secret.
Cover of an 1863 American edition
Cover of the 1892 edition. Aurora horsewhips Hargraves for kicking her dog. The scene shocked Victorian readers.
Lady Audley's Secret
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Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published on 1 October 1862. It was Braddon's most successful and well-known novel. Critic John Sutherland described the work as "th
Aurora Floyd
…Aurora Floyd is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published on 1 January 1863. It is thematically similar to her highly popular novel Lady Audley's Secret (1862). Aurora Floyd is the spoiled but kind-hearted daughter of Archibald Floyd, a wealthy banker, and his wife, an actress who died shortly after…
Cover of Lady Audley's Secret
Portrait of Mary Elizabeth Braddon by William Powell Frith, 1865
Confession scene from a serialised magazine version
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