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No Name by Wilkie Collins
I love Wilkie Collins’ humour, the quirkiness and mannerisms of his characters, and the intricate plots of his novels. No Name focuses on a rather unconventional heroine, Magdalen Vanstone, who in a short amount of time finds herself orphaned and β due to an idiotic a legality β penniless. Her rightful inheritance lands in the…
1840s, 1850s, 19TH CENTURY, 3rd pov, 4.5 STARS, Adult, adventure, British author, british classics, CLASSICS, drama, england, family, favourite authors, GOTHIC, HISTORICAL FICTION, HUMOR, LONDON, male authors, MYSTERY, No Name, published in 1862, read in 2018, sensation fiction, SISTERS, suffolk, VICTORIAN, WILKIE COLLINS, york -
Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon β book review
Lady Audley’s Secret is a pretty entertaining sensation novel. The story is centred around Lady Audley who, surprise surprise, has a secret. Like most other sensation novels, Lady Audley’s Secret combines melodrama with an investigation of sorts. Robert Audley, the nephew of Sir Michael, is suspicious of his uncle’s new wife, the beautiful and young…
1850s, 19TH CENTURY, 3 STARS, big books, BOOK REVIEW, British author, british classics, CLASSICS, drama, england, female authors, GOTHIC, HISTORICAL FICTION, Lady Audley’s Secret, MARRIAGE, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, MELODRAMA, MURDER, MYSTERY, published in 1862, read in 2020, sensation fiction, VICTORIAN