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With The Doctor's Wife, Mary Elizabeth Braddon rewrote Flaubert's Madame Bovary, exploring the heroine's sense of entrapment and alienation in middle-class provincial life. A woman with a secret, adultery, death, and the spectacle of female recrimination and suffering are the... Read Full Overview

There were two surgeons in the little town of Graybridge-on-the-Wayverne, in pretty pastoral Midlandshire, -Mr. Pawlkatt, who lived in a big, new, brazen-faced house in the middle of the queer old High Street; and John Gilbert, the parish doctor, who lived in his own house on... 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

Braddon was a prolific writer, producing more than 80 novels with inventive plots. The most famous is Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which won her recognition and a fortune as a bestseller. It has remained in print since its publication and been dramatised and filmed several... Read Full Overview

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 - 4 February 1915) was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era. She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret. Life and works: Born in London, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was privately educated. Her mother Fanny... Read Full Overview

With The Doctor's Wife, Mary Elizabeth Braddon rewrote Flaubert's Madame Bovary, exploring the heroine's sense of entrapment and alienation in middle-class provincial life. A woman with a secret, adultery, death, and the spectacle of female recrimination and suffering are the... Read Full Overview

M. E. Braddon's The Doctor's Wife offers a subtle yet incisive exploration of Victorian womanhood by centering on Isabel Gilbert, a young wife whose romantic imagination collides with the narrow realities of domestic life. Although Braddon was famous for sensation fiction,... Read Full Overview

M. E. Braddon's The Doctor's Wife offers a subtle yet incisive exploration of Victorian womanhood by centering on Isabel Gilbert, a young wife whose romantic imagination collides with the narrow realities of domestic life. Although Braddon was famous for sensation fiction,... Read Full Overview

Braddon was a prolific writer, producing more than 80 novels with inventive plots. The most famous is Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which won her recognition and a fortune as a bestseller. It has remained in print since its publication and been dramatised and filmed several... Read Full Overview

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There were two surgeons in the little town of Graybridge-on-the-Wayverne, in pretty pastoral Midlandshire, -Mr. Pawlkatt, who lived in a big, new, brazen-faced house in the middle of the queer old High Street; and John Gilbert, the parish doctor, who lived in his own house on... Read Full Overview

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Get ready for a thrilling ride with this gripping novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The Doctor's Wife is a suspenseful tale of love, betrayal, and murder that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end. Fans of Victorian literature and mystery novels will not... 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

Get ready for a thrilling ride with this gripping novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The Doctor's Wife is a suspenseful tale of love, betrayal, and murder that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end. Fans of Victorian literature and mystery novels will not... Read Full Overview