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Aurora Floyd (1863) is a sensation novel written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It is a follow-up novel to Braddon's highly popular Lady Audley's Secret (1862). The plot follows the eponymous heroine, the daughter of a marriage between a rich banker, and an actress, as she grows... Read Full Overview

With Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon had established herself, alongside Wilkie Collins and Mrs Henry Wood, as one of the ruling triumvirate of sensation novelists'. Aurora Floyd (1862-3), following hot on its heels, achieved almost equal popularity and notoriety... Read Full Overview

Aurora Floyd (1863) is a sensation novel written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It is a follow-up novel to Braddon's highly popular Lady Audley's Secret (1862). The plot follows the eponymous heroine, the daughter of a marriage between a nobleman, and an actress, as she grows into... Read Full Overview

Aurora Floyd (1863) is a sensation novel written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It is a follow-up novel to Braddon's highly popular Lady Audley's Secret (1862). The plot follows the eponymous heroine, the daughter of a marriage between a nobleman, and an actress, as she grows into... Read Full Overview

Aurora Floyd (1862-3) and Braddon's earlier novel Lady Audley's Secret established her as one of the ruling triumvirate of the popular and notorious "sensation novelists." Like Lady Audley, Aurora is a beautiful young woman bigamously married and threatened with exposure by a... Read Full Overview

Aurora Floydis one of the leading novels in the genre known as 'sensation fiction'--a tradition in which the key texts include Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, Ellen Wood's East Lynne, and Dickens's Great Expectations. When Aurora Floydwas first published in serial form in... Read Full Overview

Aurora is a beautiful young woman bigamously married and threatened with exposure by a blackmailer. But bigamy is little more than a euphemism, a device to enable the heroine, and vicariously the reader, to enjoy the forbidden sweets of adultery without adulterous intentions... Read Full Overview

In 'Aurora Floyd, ' Mary Elizabeth Braddon meticulously weaves a tale of passion, intrigue, and societal constraints, set against the backdrop of Victorian England. The novel deftly navigates themes of identity, gender roles, and the consequences of secrecy, showcasing Braddon's... Read Full Overview

Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born in London on 4th October 1835.

Braddon suffered early family trauma at age five, when her mother, Fanny, separated from her father, Henry, in 1840. When she was aged ten her brother Edward left England for India and later Australia.

However,... Read Full Overview

First published in 1863, "Aurora Floyd" is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and sequel to her best-known work and one of the most famous sensation novels of all time, "Lady Audley's Secret". A classic Victorian tale of love, lies, treachery, intrigue and murder, "Aurora... Read Full Overview

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This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Aurora Floyd

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Aurora Floyd

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Aurora Floyd

Aurora Floyd is a novel written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, first published in 1863. The story follows the life of Aurora Floyd, a beautiful and headstrong young woman who has a dark secret in her past. She is engaged to John Mellish, a wealthy landowner, but her past comes back... Read Full Overview