A beautiful, ambitious woman's respectable second marriage hides bigamy, arson, and attempted murder. A defining Victorian sensation novel.
Books mentioned in Lady Audley's Secret (3)
Don Juan by George Gordon Byron: “…French pamphlet on the cavalry sword-exercise; an odd volume of Tom Jones with one half of its stiff leather cover hanging to it by a thread; Byron's Don Juan, printed in a murderous type, which must have been invented for the special advantage of oculists and opticians; and a fat book in a faded…”
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding: “There was an old Greek Testament and the Eton Latin Grammar; a French pamphlet on the cavalry sword-exercise; an odd volume of Tom Jones with one half of its stiff leather cover hanging to it by a thread; Byron's Don Juan, printed in a murderous type, which must have been invented for the special…”
Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac: “alike upon the metaphysical diablerie of the Peau de Chagrin, and the hideous social horrors of "Cousine Bette."”
Books that mention Lady Audley's Secret (2)
An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott: “Your nose is as red as that cranberry sauce," answered Fan, coming out of the big chair where she had been curled up for an hour or two, deep in "Lady Audley's Secret."”
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield: “Let us return to Lady Audley and her secret, shall we?”