East Lynne
Runaway wives
Accident victims
Governesses
Illegitimate children
Seduction
Murderers
Married women
France, fiction
French
British
Fiction, psychological
England, fiction
Drama
Fiction
"This book looks at the anxieties of the Victorian middle classes who feared a breakdown of the social order as divorce became more readily available and promiscuity threatened the sanctity of the family. In this novel the simple act of hiring a governess raises the spectres of murder, disguise, and…
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