Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

This Victorian bestseller, along with Braddon's different well-known novel, Aurora Floyd, set up her as the primary rival of the master of the sensational novel, Wilkie Collins. A protest in opposition to the passive, insipid 19th-century heroine, female Audley become described by way of one critic of the time as "excessive-strung, complete of passion, purpose, and motion." Her crime (the name of the game of the name) is shown to threaten the reputedly decent middle-magnificence international of Victorian England