Author: Mary Elizabeth BraddonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Author: BraddonAurora Floyd
Author: Mary Elizabeth BraddonPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
Aurora Floyd is the daughter of a marriage between a nobleman and an actress. As she grows into maturity, this head-strong, dangerous and seductive vixen becomes embroiled in mystery and scandal. The story includes such controversial events as bigamy, murder and elopement.
Author: M.E BraddonBeyond Sensation
Author: Marlene TrompPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438422334
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, journal editor and bestselling author of more than eighty novels during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was a key figure in the Victorian literary scene. This volume brings together new essays from a variety of perspectives that illuminate both the richness of Braddon's oeuvre and the variety of critical approaches to it. Best known as the author of Lady Audley's Secret and Aurora Floyd, Braddon also wrote penny dreadfuls, realist novels, plays, short stories, reviews, and articles. The contributors move beyond her two most famous works and reflect a range of current issues and approaches, including gender, genre, imperialism, colonial reception, commodity culture, and publishing history. Contributors include Jennifer Carnell, Jeni Curtis, Pamela K. Gilbert, Lauren Goodlad, Aeron Haynie, Heidi Holder, Gail Turley Houston, Heidi H. Johnson, Toni Johnson-Woods, James R. Kincaid, Elizabeth Langland, Eve Lynch, Graham Law, Katherine Montweiler, Lillian Nayder, Lyn Pykett, and Tabitha Sparks, and Marlene Tromp.
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon MazwellAurora Floyd
Author: M. E. BraddonPublisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
Aurora Floyd focuses on its eponymous heroine, Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a wealthy banker, who in his late forties scandalously married a poor actress from a northern county. His young wife died not long after Aurora’s birth, and her daughter was raised by her grieving father, who idolizes the child. Aurora thus grows up spoiled and somewhat headstrong. After she returns from a Parisian finishing school, it is clear that something happened to her there which has caused a dark cloud to hang over her, causing her father immense grief. When a few years later she is courted and then marries, the secrets of what happened in her teenage years eventually come to light, leading to tragedy. The novel was published in 1863 after having been serialized in Temple Bar magazine. This came only a year after Braddon first achieved wide popularity with her best-selling novel Lady Audley’s Secret. Aurora Floyd didn’t achieve the same level of popularity, but it was nevertheless well received. It was almost immediately turned into a stage play, and was the basis of a short silent film in 1912. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon