With The Doctor's Wife, Mary Elizabeth Braddon rewrote Flaubert's Madame Bovary, exploring the heroine's sense of entrapment and alienation in middle-class provincial life. A woman with a secret, adultery, death, and the spectacle of female recrimination and suffering are the elements which combine to make The Doctor's Wife a classic women's sensation novel. The novel is also self-consciously literary, however, and Braddon attempts to transcend the sensation genre. This volume, which reproduces uncut the first three-volume edition of 1864, is the only edition of the novel available today.
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Lyn Pykett is Professor and Head of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
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The Doctor's Wife is the 4th of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's novels which I have had the good fortune to read. There are 76 more, so, Oxford World's Classics, bring them on! In this, my favorite so far, the heroine reads novels and dreams of her life being like those heroines in her novels. She especially seems to have an affinity with Edith Dombey. Isabel marries a decent, honest, but not much of a dreamer type man. He is very sensible and loves her much, but doesn't satisfy her emotionally, while someone else does. Braddon's wonderful word paintings of the nature scenes, and her many literary allusions were what brought this book to be my favorite of hers so far. And I thought the story was also a little more interesting. I highly recommend this author to anyone who reads 19th century literature for FUN, which is why I do it.
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There were two surgeons in the little town of Graybridge-on-the-Wayverne, in pretty pastoral Midlandshire,-Mr Pawlkatt, who lived in a big, new, brazen-faced house in the middle of the queer old High Street; and John Gilbert, the parish doctor, who lived in his own house on the outskirts of Graybridge, and worked very hard for a smaller income than that which the stylish Mr Pawlkatt derived from his aristocratic patients. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
model old woman, parish surgeon, wicked squire, penny public, penny numbers, sensation novel, little parlour, country surgeon, best parlour, green parasol, sparkling burgundy, sensation fiction, dusty lane, faint odour, young surgeon Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roland Lansdell, George Gilbert, Lady Gwendoline, Isabel Gilbert, Miss Sleaford, Mordred Priory, Charles Raymond, Master Jarge, Isabel Sleaford, Sigismund Smith, Lord Ruysdale, Brown Molly, Lord Thurston, Nessborough Hollow, Thurston's Crag, William Jeffson, Edith Dombey, Jack the Scribe, Ernest Maltravers, Miss Burdock, Austin Colborne, Eugene Aram, John Gilbert, Matilda Jeffson, Walworth Road New!
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There were two surgeons in the little town of Graybridge-on-the-Wayverne, in pretty pastoral Midlandshire,-Mr Pawlkatt, who lived in a big, new, brazen-faced house in the middle of the queer old High Street; and John Gilbert, the parish doctor, who lived in his own house on the outskirts of Graybridge, and worked very hard for a smaller income than that which the stylish Mr Pawlkatt derived from his aristocratic patients. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
model old woman, parish surgeon, wicked squire, penny public, penny numbers, sensation novel, little parlour, country surgeon, best parlour, green parasol, sparkling burgundy, sensation fiction, dusty lane, faint odour, young surgeon Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roland Lansdell, George Gilbert, Lady Gwendoline, Isabel Gilbert, Miss Sleaford, Mordred Priory, Charles Raymond, Master Jarge, Isabel Sleaford, Sigismund Smith, Lord Ruysdale, Brown Molly, Lord Thurston, Nessborough Hollow, Thurston's Crag, William Jeffson, Edith Dombey, Jack the Scribe, Ernest Maltravers, Miss Burdock, Austin Colborne, Eugene Aram, John Gilbert, Matilda Jeffson, Walworth Road New!
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- Aurora Floyd (Broadview Literary Texts) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon on 6 pages
- David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics) by Charles Dickens on 4 pages
- In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson on 4 pages
- Dombey And Son in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Ernest Maltravers by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The New Nineteenth Century: Feminist Readings of Underread Victorian Fiction (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture) by Barbara Leah Harman on 5 pages
- The New Nineteenth Century: Feminist Readings of Underread Victorian Fiction (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture) by Barbara Leah Harman on 5 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Deirdre David on 4 pages
- Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Pamela K. Gilbert on page 106, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction by Janice Carlisle in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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