A Perfect Eel
Elaine Showalter: ‘Lady Audley’s Secret’, 21 June 2012
Lady Audley’s Secret
by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, edited by Lyn Pykett.
Oxford, 448 pp., £9.99, January 2012,978 0 19 957703 3 Show More
by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, edited by Lyn Pykett.
Oxford, 448 pp., £9.99, January 2012,
“... in 1974, and in 1987 David Skilton edited it for the Oxford World’s Classics. In the interim, as Lyn Pykett’s excellent introduction to a new Oxford edition explains, both Braddon and sensation fiction in general experienced a revival as a result of the rise of feminist criticism and cultural studies. As ... ”
