{"product_id":"9781961884380","title":"Lady Audley's Secret","description":"Murder, mystery, mistaken identity, madness, bigamy, adultery:  These were the special ingredients that made the sensation novel so delectable to the Victorian palate.  Readers who devoured \u003ci\u003eLady Audley's Secret\u003c\/i\u003e were thrilled and frightened by its inversion of the ideal Victorian heroine.  Lady Audley looks like the angel-in-the-house ideal of Victorian womanhood-she is blonde, fragile, and childlike-but her behavior is distinctly villainous. At a time when Victorian women were beginning to rebel against their limited roles as wives and mothers, novels such as \u003ci\u003eLady Audley's Secret\u003c\/i\u003e spoke to their secret longings and fantasies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGenteel women readers, slaving away as governesses in other people's families, could share the fantasy of poor Lucy, suddenly made a lady by her marriage to Sir Michael. Part detective story, part domestic drama, \u003ci\u003eLady Audley's Secret\u003c\/i\u003e became a runaway bestseller of its era. Nearly a century and a half since it was first published, \u003ci\u003eLady Audley's Secret\u003c\/i\u003e has lost none of its ability to disturb and captivate readers.","brand":"The Unnamed Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42588014280765,"sku":"9781961884380","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781961884380_p0.jpg?v=1771584730","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781961884380","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}