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Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862.
It was Braddon's most successful and well known novel.
Critic John Sutherland ( 1989 ) described the work as " the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels.
" The plot centers on " accidental bigamy " which was in literary fashion in the early 1860s.
The plot was summarized by literary critic Elaine Showalter ( 1982 ): " Braddon's bigamous heroine deserts her child, pushes husband number one down a well, thinks about poisoning husband number two and sets fire to a hotel in which her other male acquaintances are residing.
" Elements of the novel mirror themes of the real-life Constance Kent case of June 1860 which gripped the nation for years with headlines.
A follow-up novel Aurora Floyd appeared in 1863.
There have been three silent film adaptions, one UK television version in 2000, and three minor stage adaptions.
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