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Aurora Floyd
Chapitres (39)
- I: How a Rich Banker Married an Actress 0:00
- II: Aurora 35:17
- III: What Became of the Diamond Bracelet 53:02
- IV: After the Ball 1:25:36
- V: John Mellish 1:55:57
- VI: Rejected and Accepted 2:25:22
- VII: Aurora’s Strange Pensioner 2:58:37
- VIII: Poor John Mellish Comes Back Again 3:35:25
- IX: How Talbot Bulstrode Spent His Christmas 4:02:43
- X: Fighting the Battle 4:26:46
- XI: At the Château d’Arques 4:58:53
- XII: Steeve Hargraves, the “Softy” 5:14:15
- XIII: The Spring Meeting 5:52:50
- XIV: “Love Took Up the Glass of Time, and Turned It in His Glowing Hands” 6:29:02
- XV: Mr. Pastern’s Letter 6:56:28
- XVI: Mr. James Conyers 7:17:46
- XVII: The Trainer’s Messenger 7:49:04
- XVIII: Out in the Rain 8:18:31
- XIX: Money Matters 9:01:31
- XX: Captain Prodder 9:48:08
- XXI: “He Only Said, I Am A-Weary.” 10:15:40
- XXII: Still Constant 10:42:03
- XXIII: On the Threshold of Darker Miseries 11:27:07
- XXIV: Captain Prodder Carries Bad News to His Niece’s House 11:44:42
- XXV: The Deed That Had Been Done in the Wood 12:18:56
- XXVI: At the Golden Lion 13:15:14
- XXVII: “My Wife! My Wife! What Wife? I Have No Wife.” 13:36:10
- XXVIII: Aurora’s Flight 13:52:30
- XXIX: John Mellish Finds His Home Desolate 14:14:47
- XXX: An Unexpected Visitor 14:44:29
- XXXI: Talbot Bulstrode’s Advice 15:21:52
- XXXII: On the Watch 15:40:29
- XXXIII: Captain Prodder Goes Back to Doncaster 16:11:19
- XXXIV: The Discovery of the Weapon with Which James Conyers Had Been Slain 16:49:20
- XXXV: Under a Cloud 17:08:58
- XXXVI: Reunion 17:49:56
- XXXVII: The Brass Button by Crosby, Birmingham 18:10:28
- XXXVIII: Off the Scent 18:31:50
- XXXIX: Talbot Bulstrode Makes Atonement for the Past 19:02:01
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Aurora Floyd focuses on its eponymous heroine, Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a wealthy banker, who in his late forties scandalously married a poor actress from a northern county. His young wife died not long after Aurora’s birth, and her daughter was raised by her grieving father, who idolizes the child. Aurora thus grows up spoiled and somewhat headstrong.
After she returns from a Parisian finishing school, it is clear that something happened to her there which has caused a dark cloud to hang over her, causing her father immense grief. When a few years later she is courted and then marries, the secrets of what happened in her teenage years eventually come to light, leading to tragedy.
The novel was published in 1863 after having been serialized in Temple Bar magazine. This came only a year after Braddon first achieved wide popularity with her best-selling novel Lady Audley’s Secret. Aurora Floyd didn’t achieve the same level of popularity, but it was nevertheless well received. It was almost immediately turned into a stage play, and was the basis of a short silent film in 1912.