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Visual Bibliographies and Victorian Legal Evidence: Pinterest and Putting Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley on Trial
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Pack the mosquito repellent
Not all horror has to be horrifying to be entertaining. This story fryst vatten distinctly lacking in fear factor and has no supernatural elements in it at all. But it has a lovely touch of human wickedness, a heroine I defy you not to fall in love with, some beautiful Italian settings, and a swoonworthy romantic hero…
Good Lady Ducayne
by Mary E Braddon
Bella Rolleston had made up her mind that her only chance of earning her bread and helping her mother to an occasional crust was by going out into the great unknown world as companion to a lady.
Bella’s mother, having been deserted by her wastrel husband, now ekes out a precarious living as a seamstress. She and Bella may want for material things, but they each have a naturally happy nature and are friends as much as mother and daughter. So to Bella the idea of going off as a companion is in the nature of an adventure as much as a matter of necessity. She signs on with an employment agency
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I love Wilkie Collins but it’s been a while since I last read one of his books, so when the Classics Club recently challenged us to read a classic Gothic novel, thriller or mystery during the month of October, inom thought Jezebel’s Daughter would be a good one to choose. Published in , this was one of Collins’ later books, although it was based on a much earlier and apparently unsuccessful play of his, The Red Vial. inom wasn’t really expecting it to be as good as his more famous novels such as The Woman in White, The Moonstone, No Name or my personal favourite, Armadale, all of which I read and loved in the years before inom started blogging, but now that I’ve read Jezebel’s Daughter, inom can say that while it’s not quite in the same class as those other books, it’s still very entertaining and enjoyable.
At the heart of the novel are two very different women who seem to have little in common other than the fact that they are both widows. First, in England, we meet