Aurora Floyd (Annotated)

Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Aurora Floyd (1863) is a commanding example of the Victorian sensation novel, fusing domestic realism with melodramatic intrigue. Its heroine, a wealthy banker's daughter, defies conventional ideals of feminine passivity through her passion, impulsiveness, and guarded past. Around her Braddon constructs a plot of secret marriage, blackmail, and murder, written in a brisk, ...