Lady Audley's Secret (ME Braddon, 1862)
From Commonplace Book
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Lady Audley's Secret. Pub. 1862. Ed. Natalie M. Houston. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2003.
Contents
General Notes
- 60 Talboys goes to Australia for the gold rush beginning in 1851, same that the characters rob a convoy for in Sherlock Holmes "Boscombe Valley Mystery"
- 103 "Indeed I believe all ghosts to be the result of damp." (Robert A)
- 109 Talboys' perceived sensitivity to the weather (by Robert), reminiscent of Lucy Villette
- 222 time an impt motif: the clock at Audley Court, train timetables, Clara Talboys says she thought she had to "trust to time", then Talboys' death described on 223 as "untimely"
Theme Tracking
Reading/Writing
Materiality
Technology
Shakespeare references
- 179 describing the locksmith "there was nothing that he need have been ashamed of in his face, except the dirt, and that, as Hamlet'smother says, "is common""
- 211 Talboys' father reminds RA of John Philip kemble
