Wyllard's Weird (Annotated)

Wyllard's Weird is a late-Victorian novel of secrecy, inheritance, and moral consequence, in which Braddon turns the machinery of sensation fiction toward questions of fate and social identity. Its title invokes "weird" in the older sense of destiny, and the narrative entwines family history, hidden motives, romantic uncertainty, and the ominous pressure of the past. Written in Braddon's character...