When The Doctor's Wife was first published in 1864, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was well known for her scandalous bestseller, Lady Audley's Secret. Adultery, death, and the spectacle of female recrimination and suffering are the elements that combine to make The Doctor's Wife a classic women's 'sensation' novel. Yet it is also Braddon's most self-consciously literary work and her rewriting of Madame Bovary. Like Emma Bovary, Braddon's heroine, Isabel Gilbert, is trapped in a marriage to a man incapable of understanding her imaginative life. But Braddon's novel differs vastly from Flaubert's in the nature and consequences of Isabel's 'affair'.
The Lovels of Arden
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
audiobookTaken at the Flood
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
audiobookSons of Fire
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
audiobookLady Audley's Secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
audiobookJohn Marchmont's Legacy
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
audiobookMount Royal Volume III
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
audiobookA Strange World
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
audiobookMount Royal Volume II
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
audiobookWyllard's Weird
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
audiobookThou Art The Man
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
audiobookDead Love Has Chains
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Unbreak This Heart
Betty Shreffler
audiobookImpact
Mark Mills
audiobookThe Manual for Good Wives : A Powerful and Heartbreaking Novel About Love, Family and Reclaiming Black British History
Lola Jaye
audiobookThe Billionaire's Defiant Acquisition & Billionaire's Wife on Paper & Billionaire Without a Past
Sharon Kendrick, Melanie Milburne, Carol Marinelli
audiobookFinding Colin Firth : A Novel
Mia March
bookThe Pearl Locket
Kathleen McGurl
audiobookThe Maiden of Ireland : A Novel
Susan Wiggs
audiobook12 Steps to Mr. Right
Cindi Madsen
audiobookBaby, It’s Cold Out There
Victoria H. Smith
audiobookBillionaire Fake Out
Katherine Garbera
audiobookEducated
Nellie Wilson
audiobookA Hero to Keep
Susan Gable
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