DiscoverThe 19th Century Novel PodcastEPISODE 15: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, "Lady Audley’s Secret" (1862), Part Two
EPISODE 15: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, "Lady Audley’s Secret" (1862), Part Two

EPISODE 15: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, "Lady Audley’s Secret" (1862), Part Two

Update: 2023-02-10
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Vol. 2, Chapters 1-5. 0:00 —Rail travel. 5:40 —Women on the rails. 11:24 —Losing letters, finding inscriptions, saving Georgey. 16:43 —George’s father & sister.


Vol. 2, Chapters 6-9. 19:50 —Petticoat government. 22:22 —Interlude. 23:-03—Homosociality. 30:37 —Effeminacy. 41:44 —The Audley name. 51:33 —Interlude. 52:03 —Confronting Lady Audley. 54:33 —The connecting link. 55:57 —Off to Wildersnea. 59:03 —Assembling the pieces. 1:01:37 —Digging further. 1:01:37 —Fugue. 1:02:03 —Closing.


Text: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret. 1862. Oxford Univ. Press, 2012.


Interludes: Beethoven, Piano Sonata 27 in F Minor, Op. 90 (1814),, performed by Randolph Hokanson.


Additional music: Felix Mendelssohn, Fugue in F Minor (1836), performed by Professor Robert Parkins, Duke University, 1982.


Illustration: Mary Elizabeth Braddon  (Robert Lee Wolff Collection, Univ. of Texas).






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Contact: jimjneilson@gmail.com






Thanks to Professor Anna Gibson and the students of English 453: Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (The Sensation Novel), NCSU Fall 2022.   

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EPISODE 15: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, "Lady Audley’s Secret" (1862), Part Two

EPISODE 15: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, "Lady Audley’s Secret" (1862), Part Two

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