EPISODE 15: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, "Lady Audley’s Secret" (1862), Part Two

Vol. 2, Chapters 1-5. 0:00—Rail travel. 5:40—Women on the rails. 11:24—Losing letters, finding inscriptions, saving Georgey. 16:43—George’s father & sister.

Vol. 2, Chapters 6-9. 19:50—Petticoat government. 22:22—Interlude. 23:-03—Homosociality. 30:37—Effeminacy. 41:44—The Audley name. 51:33—Interlude. 52:03—Confronting Lady Audley. 54:33—The connecting link. 55:57—Off to Wildersnea. 59:03—Assembling the pieces. 1:01:37—Digging further. 1:01:37—Fugue. 1:02:03—Closing.

Text: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret. 1862. Oxford Univ. Press, 2012.

Interludes: Beethoven, Piano Sonata 27 in F Minor, Op. 90 (1814),, performed by Randolph Hokanson.

Additional music: Felix Mendelssohn, Fugue in F Minor (1836), performed by Professor Robert Parkins, Duke University, 1982.

Illustration: Mary Elizabeth Braddon  (Robert Lee Wolff Collection, Univ. of Texas).

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Thanks to Professor Anna Gibson and the students of English 453: Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (The Sensation Novel), NCSU Fall 2022.