Gothic

Lady Audley’s Secret

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

A golden-haired governess marries a wealthy baronet, and his nephew begins to notice that a friend vanished while visiting the house. Braddon’s sensation novel was a scandalous bestseller in 1862. The secret is less shocking now than the question of why the heroine felt she had to keep it.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 10 hr 5 min

Where to find it

The secret bookcase in the west wing

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #8954. In the public domain in the United States.