Written just a decade after Brontë‘s Villette, but Braddon‘s book feels more modern somehow. Going into this without knowing much but enjoying it so far ? #weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
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Lady Audley's Secret | 
Written just a decade after Brontë‘s Villette, but Braddon‘s book feels more modern somehow. Going into this without knowing much but enjoying it so far ? #weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
pickThis book had me talking aloud as I pieced together the clues to try and see if George Talbots really did disappear or not. And what was Lady Audley hiding, what secret(s) was she keeping?!
Book discussion for this on on Tuesday, 8/6; can‘t wait to hear what the others thought of this one!
I thoroughly enjoy it! Well written, fast paced. I didn‘t mind listening for hours at a time!
Hi everyone
Looking for some help. Earlier this year, I was part of a group reading old novels. We read Lady Audley, I can‘t find that group in my conversations?I would love to re-join if it‘s still going? Terese
Hmm. Some jarring dialogue based on the times, but at least a pretty good mystery, even if seeing how women were treated then is a bit painful, not to mention downright scary in a few instances.
#bookspin @TheAromaofBooks
I started the story years ago. At the time I was participating in a gothic themed swap. Because I decided this book fit the theme I sent it along before finishing it. I‘m glad to be finally finding out how it all ends.
📖 I just started this last night and I'm only 3 chapters in, and ooo it's good y'all!!! I have the Penguin Classics edition from a small subscription box from the Tea and Ink Society. A singular woman run subscription box, it's cute and fun!
🍁My two boys, my husband, our home in beautiful Florida, Litsy, friends, all the good stuff. ♡
📚Typos 😬 I know it's a mistake but they are distracting!!
Thank you for the tag @erzascarletbookgasm ☺
I‘m home from a couple of weeks away on holiday and I‘m trying to catch up with what‘s been happening on Litsy in my absence. 😆😆
Here are a few Viragos I found in my travels. I can‘t BEGIN to tell you how much fun it was to tour around and explore some new bookshops again (my first foray since Covid 🙄).
so-soThere are some lovely, vivid descriptions but very little mystery in this classic, sensationalist story. It lacks the suspense and clever literary techniques that make Wilkie Collins the master of the genre. #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks
pickOh the melodrama! 😆 Apropos of the era. I did enjoy this on audio, though the voice drama was comical at times when the characters were in the dark depths of their despair.
I agree with @Cathythoughts the conclusion was too long. Plus it would have been far more interesting not to have wrapped up the story with a pretty bow, as Braddon expressly notes. Either she was not cynical by nature or assumed her readers had delicate sensibilities.
pickGreat story , great prose. Took me a long time to read this ... I loved it. I enjoyed the journey more than the end .. only because it dragged just the tiniest bit at the end. Still, all the stars ✨ ✨✨✨✨✨
Lady Audleys Secret ❤️..... “ A little eccentric .. A little stupid perhaps - he mayn‘t be overburdened with wits, but I don‘t think he has brains enough for madness. I believe it‘s generally your great intellects that get out of order ...
Perhaps he reads too much ...
This book is a real page turner ! The drama 👍🏻❤️
The best literary thriller I can remember reading .. page 100 & going strong
pickAfter having just returned to London after several years in Australia, George Talboys runs into an old friend Robert Audley. Robert invites George back home to Audley Court. While there, George goes missing and Robert starts to investigate what happened to his friend.
This is a sensation novel published in 1862, it‘s a page turner with a lot of coincidences.
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🎧 Recollections of my Non-Existence
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📚 Girl, Woman, Other, a reread for me #SheSaid
‘I have been yawning over a stupid novel all the morning, and shall be very glad of a little fresh air.‘
Heaven help the novelist whose fiction Miss Audley had been perusing, if he had no better critics than that young lady. She had read page after page without knowing what she had been reading; and had flung aside the volumes half-a-dozen times to go to the window and watch for that visitor whom she had so confidently expected.
pickA classic mystery in the vein of Rebecca. The titular secret doesn't remain a mystery for long, but the writing pulls you in and the characters make you invested. In the beginning, Lucy's marriage is announced and a man named George returns from Australia with a new fortune. As their paths cross and everyone's histories are revealed, greed and selfishness cause pain. The romance aspects were the least interesting to me and felt a bit forced.
pickEnjoyed this on audible, an easy listen but lots of twists to keep you guessing 🙂
pickAt first I found it hard to get into the book, but after the first chapter or so when I got an inkling where it might be heading, it got really interesting. This is a bit of a cat-and-mouse mystery, a sensation novel published in 1862. Not 100% realistic, maybe, by modern standards, but Braddon is a good writer. It was an entertaining read.
I am so thankful for this extra day to lay around in the small park near my home and read Lady Audley‘s Secret for my upcoming Oxford class. The weather is just perfect. And there are no kids in this park right now. It‘s kind of amazing!
Makes me almost want to call in sick tomorrow and do the same thing again.
I am finally making some progress with my reading for the class I am taking at Oxford this summer. The course is called 500 Years of British Crime, and the first book, while historically interesting was a slog. But I just started book 2 of 5, and a sentence like this just sucks me in!!
"What I need is a good defense / Cause I'm feeling like a criminal" ? Love Fiona Apple ?
Also love this Victorian "sensation novel" featuring a lady #criminal. Such an absorbing read! If I'm not mistaken, this was published when Braddon was only 27 ?
#FierceFeb @Cinfhen
pickBook #1 for 2018
A fantastic and fast-paced glimpse into the beginnings of a genre. It‘s a mystery of the charming sociopath vs the reluctant “detective” type, with a twist of “Columbo” thrown in for good measure. Classics Rule!
Participating in a swap has me hunting out all my to be read gothic books. I've had this one for several years. So far it is a Wilkie Collins lite, but I do love the rambling Winchester mystery house like setting.
A governess, marries a rich older man, and becomes Lady Audley, but she has a dark secret which she intends to keep at all costs. An atmospheric country house, secrets, blackmail, crime and some detective works are all packed in this book that made it a 'sensation novel' during its time. Inspired by a true life story, it's about a woman's ambitious climb and passion for social success.
#19thcenturynovels #readingwomenmonth @thereadingwomen
#melodicmay #aslongasyouloveme reminds me of George & Helen Talboys, albeit one-sided. #day3
My panel at the graduate conference is called "Tightening the Corset." I'm in love.?
"He forgot that love, which is madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by every one except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures." - 1861-62
Declarations of love always give me the warm, fuzzy shivers. Especially when they're reciprocated🤗
When Robert Audley goes on a rant about how women don't know how to be lazy and are basically superhuman👌🏼❤️
When new versions of your favorites come in and you have to fight the urge to buy a 5th or 6th copy. #booksellerproblems
When I think unforgettable women in literature, these two definitely come to mind. Edna from The Awakening is who made me realize that I was a feminist, and Lady Audley is such a bold, fierce woman! 📚🙌🏻👒 #booktober #unforgettablewomen
Because I forgot to do #shelfiesunday yesterday 😀
#shelfie #bookshelves #bookshelfie
pick#Recommendsday This is some Victorian sensationalist literature and it is genuinely and delightfully nuts. If you're anything like me you're going to get to like, the second chapter and be all "okay, I see where this is going, I have in fact read a novel before" and YOU ARE CORRECT but also THAT IS ONLY THE FIRST TWIST, so you know, stick with it, it pays dividends.
"Sharp October winds were sweeping the leaves from the limes in the long avenue, and driving them in withered heaps with a ghostly rustling noise along the dry gravel walks. The old well must have been half choked up with the leaves that drifted about it, and whirled in eddying circles into it's black, broken mouth."
Gotta get this finished for class tomorrow! On Sundays, however, I'm pretty much useless. My husband and I just want to sit, veg on some junk food, and catch up on Once Upon a Time.👑😊
Headed to my beautiful campus to study Lady Audley's Secret and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl📚🌺🤓
