List of Figures and Tables

Foreword

James R. Kincaid

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Marlene Tromp

Pamela K. Gilbert

Aeron Haynie

I. Lady Audley's Secret

Enclosure Acts: Framing Women's Bodies in Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret

Elizabeth Langland

Braddon's Commentaries on the Trials and Legal Secrets of Audley Court

Gail Turley Houston

Rebellious Sepoys and Bigamous Wives: The Indian Mutiny and Marriage Law Reform in Lady Audley's Secret

Lillian Nayder

Marketing Sensation: Lady Audley's Secret and Consumer Culture

Katherine Montwieler

``An idle handle that was never turned, and a lazy rope so rotten'': The Decay of the Country Estate in Lady Audley's Secret

Aeron Haynie

II. Aurora Floyd

The Espaliered Girl: Pruning the Docile Body in Aurora Floyd

Jeni Curtis

The Dangerous Woman: M. E. Braddon's Sensational (En) gendering of Domestic Law

Marlene Tromp

III. Braddon in the Literary Marketplace

Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Australia: Queen of the Colonies

Toni Johnson-Woods

``Our Author'': Braddon in the Provincial Weeklies

Jennifer Carnell

Graham Law

Misalliance: M. E. Braddon's Writing for the Stage

Heidi J. Holder

IV. Genre and Culture

Braddon and Victorian Realism: Joshua Haggard's Daughter

Pamela K. Gilbert

Fiction Becomes Her: Representations of Female Character in Mary Braddon's The Doctor's Wife

Tabitha Sparks

``Go and Marry Your Doctor'': Fetishism and ``Redundance'' at the Fin de Siecle and the Vampires of ``Good Lady Ducayne''

Lauren M. E. Goodlad

Spectral Politics: M. E. Braddon and the Spirits of Social Reform

Eve M. Lynch

Electra-fying the Female Sleuth: Detecting the Father in Eleanor's Victory and Thou Art the Man

Heidi H. Johnson

Afterword

Lyn Pykett

Select Bibliography

Contributors

Index