Like Lady Audley, Aurora is a beautiful young woman bigamously married and threatened with exposure by a blackmailer. But in Aurora Floyd, and in many of the novels written in imitation of it, bigamy is little more than a euphemism, a device to enable the heroine, and vicariously the reader, to enjoy the forbidden sweets of adultery without adulterous intentions.
Aurora Floyd
ISBN: 0192837273
ISBN 13: 9780192837271
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages: 474
Authors: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, P.D. Edwards
