The Doctor's Wife: A Novel
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WhenThe Doctor's Wifewas first published in 1864, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was well known for her scandalous bestseller,Lady Audley's Secret. Adultery, death, and the spectacle of female recrimination and suffering are the elements that combine to makeThe Doctor's Wifea classic women's 'sensation' novel. Yet it is also Braddon's most self-consciously literary work and her rewriting ofMadame Bovary. Like Emma Bovary, Braddon's heroine, Isabel Gilbert, is trapped in a marriage to a man incapable of understanding her imaginative life. But Braddon's novel differs vastly from Flaubert's in the nature...
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- THE DOCTOR'S WIFE
- A Novel
- ETC. ETC. ETC.
- LONDON JOHN AND ROBERT MAXWELL MILTON HOUSE, SHOE LANE, FLEET STREET
- THE DOCTORS WIFE.
- CHAPTER I.
- A YOUNG MAN FROM THE COUNTRY
- CHAPTER II.
- A SENSATION AUTHOR.
- CHAPTER III.
- ISABEL.
- CHAPTER IV.
- THE END OF GEORGE GILBERT'S HOLIDAY.
- CHAPTER V.
- GEORGE AT HOME.
- CHAPTER VI.
- TOO MUCH ALONE.
- CHAPTER VII.
- ON THE BRIDGE.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- ABOUT POOR JOE TILLET'S YOUNG WIFE.
- CHAPTER IX.
- MISS SLEAFORD'S ENGAGEMENT.
- CHAPTER X.
- A BAD BEGINNING.
- CHAPTER XI.
- "SHE ONLY SAID, 'MY LIFE IS WEARY!'"
- CHAPTER XII.
- SOMETHING LIKE A BIRTHDAY.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- "OH, MY COUSIN, SHALLOW-HEARTED!"
- CHAPTER XIV.
- UNDER LORD THURSTON'S OAK.
- CHAPTER XV.
- ROLAND SAYS, "AMEN."
- CHAPTER XVI.
- MR. LANSDELL RELATES AN ADVENTURE.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- THE FIRST WARNING.
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- THE SECOND WARNING.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN!
- CHAPTER XX.
- "OCEANS SHOULD DIVIDE US."
- CHAPTER XXI.
- "ONCE MORE THE GATE BEHIND ME FALLS."
- CHAPTER XXII.
- "MY LOVE'S A NOBLE MADNESS."
- CHAPTER XXIII.
- A LITTLE CLOUD.
- CHAPTER XXIV.
- LADY GWENDOLINE DOES HER DUTY.
- CHAPTER XXV.
- "FOR LOVE HIMSELF TOOK PART AGAINST HIMSELF."
- CHAPTER XXVI.
- A POPULAR PREACHER.
- CHAPTER XXVII.
- "AND NOW I LIVE, AND NOW MY LIFE IS DONE!"
- CHAPTER XXVIII.
- TRYING TO BE GOOD.
- CHAPTER XXIX.
- THE FIRST WHISPER OF THE STORM.
- CHAPTER XXX.
- THE BEGINNING OF A GREAT CHANGE.
- CHAPTER XXXI.
- FIFTY POUNDS.
- CHAPTER XXXII.
- "I'LL NOT BELIEVE BUT DESDEMONA'S HONEST."
- CHAPTER XXXIII.
- KEEPING A PROMISE.
- CHAPTER XXXIV.
- RETROSPECTIVE.
- CHAPTER XXXV.
- "'TWERE BEST AT ONCE TO SINK TO PEACE."
- CHAPTER XXXVI.
- BETWEEN TWO WORLDS.
- CHAPTER THE LAST.
- "IF ANY CALM, A CALM DESPAIR."
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