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Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, written in 1862.
Plot
Lady Lucy Audley is a beautiful, doll-like blonde, who in the absence of her first husband George Talboys had been forced by poverty to desert her child and take on a new identity before marrying Lord Audley. When her first husband returns she apparently kills him by accident in a row. Lord Audley's nephew Robert, a barrister, happens to be a good friend of the old husband and decides to find out what happened to him. He does not know about his aunt's past, however, and thus does not connect her to the disappearance of his friend... at first.
Though the novel's content (crime, mostly bigamy and attempted murder) was considered fairly immoral at the time of publication, it was extremely successful. It has been in print ever since in the United Kingdom.
Films
- Lady Audley's Secret 1912 (USA, black and white, silent)
- Lady Audley's Secret (aka Secrets of Society) 1915 (USA, black and white, silent, directed by Marshall Farnum)
- Lady Audley's Secret 1920 (UK, black and white, silent, directed by Jack Denton)
- Lady Audley's Secret 2000 (UK, TV, directed by Betsan Morris Evans)
Broadway musical
Produced in 1972.
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