Title: Lady Audley's Secret
Content:  Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862. It was Braddon's most successful and well-known novel. Critic John Sutherland (1989) described the work as "the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels". The plot centres on "accidental bigamy" which was in literary fashion in the early 1860s. The plot was summarised by literary critic Elaine Showalter (1982): "Braddon's bigamous heroine deserts her child, pushes husband number one down a well, thinks about poisoning husband number two and sets fire to a hotel in which her other male acquaintances are residing". Elements of the novel mirror themes of the real-life Constance Kent case of June 1860 which gripped the nation for years. A follow-up novel, Aurora Floyd, appeared in 1863. Braddon set the story in Ingatestone Hall, Essex, inspired by a visit there. There have been three silent film adaptations, one UK television version in 2000, and three minor stage adaptations.
Title: Lady Audley's Secret
Content:  Lady Audley's Secret was partly serialised in Robin Goodfellow magazine July–September 1861, then entirely serialised in Sixpenny Magazine January–December 1862 and once again serialised in London Journal March–August 1863. It was published in 1862 in three volumes by William Tinsley. Braddon initially sold the rights to the Irish publisher John Maxwell, with whom Braddon also lived and had children. Maxwell published it in his ailing magazine Robin Goodfellow, but Braddon did not labour much, writing the final third in less than two weeks. Not until it was published as a three-volume novel by William Tinsley did it become a success and allow Braddon to be financially independent for the remainder of her life. It also enriched 
Title: Lady Audley's Secret (1920 film)
Content:  Lady Audley's Secret is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Jack Denton and starring Margaret Bannerman, Manning Haynes and Betty Farquhar. It was an adaptation of the 1862 novel Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
Title: Lady Audley's Secret
Content:  Audley must accept Lucy Graham's account of herself since they have no other information about her past. Other anxieties about unstable identity appear throughout the novel: Lady Audley's maid, Phoebe, resembles Lady Audley, thus banishing the idea of physical distinction between the upper and lower classes and therefore of any inherent superiority of the former. Lady Audley's Secret is, furthermore, a story about gender and class, and Lady Audley's objectionable upward mobility suggests a threat to the paradigm of social class. Madness is also a key issue. Lady Audley and others often converse about the meaning of this word, but many readers believe that Lady Audley is not mad. In fact, many critics view Lady Audley's deception as a feminist act in which a woman takes control of the direction of 
Title: Lady Audley's Secret (1915 film)
Content:  Lady Audley's Secret is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Marshall Farnum and starring  Theda Bara, Riley Hatch and Clifford Bruce. It was an adaptation of the 1862 British novel Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It is now considered a lost film. The film was less successful than Bara's other films of the period, because it did not feature her in the wildly popular vamp role she had established.
Title: Lady Audley's Secret
Content: Films ; Lady Audley's Secret, 1912 (USA, black and white, silent) ; Lady Audley's Secret (aka Secrets of Society), 1915 (USA, black and white, silent, directed by Marshall Farnum) ; Lady Audley's Secret, 1920 (UK, black and white, silent, directed by Jack Denton) ; Lady Audley's Secret, 1949 (UK, TV, black and white) ; Lady Audleys Geheimnis, 1978 (West Germany, TV, directed by Wilhelm Semmelroth) ; Lady Audley's Secret, 2000 (UK, TV, directed by Betsan Morris Evans) - (In the USA part of the Mystery! series.) Radio ; Lady Audley's Secret, 2009 (UK, BBC Radio 4) Stage ; 1863 – adapted by Colin Henry Hazlewood, first performed at the Victoria Theatre, London, 1863. Hazlewood also dramatised Braddon's Aurora Floyd the same year. ; 1930 – Cambridge Festival Theatre: a "melodramatized version" of the novel including a "birthday fete" and Rustic Ballet. The part of Lady Audley was played by (Dame) Flora Robson and the performance was produced by Tyrone Guthrie. It was preceded by a performance of Morton's Cox and Box. ; 1971 – Chicago, Goodman Theatre, adaptation by Douglas Seale ; 1972 – Off-Broadway, Seale adaptation   
Title: Lady Audley's Secret
Content:  publisher William Tinsley, who went on to build a villa at Barnes, "Audley Lodge", with the profits. Notably – given the theme of bigamy in the novel's plot – Maxwell himself was married to another woman, and so Braddon was unable to marry him until his wife died in 1874. When it became public that Maxwell and Braddon had been living in an "irregular" arrangement all those years, it caused a minor scandal during which all their servants gave notice. In 1997 a Wordsworth Limited edition was released with an Introduction by Keith Carabine from the University of Kent in which he states ‘In the latter half of the nineteenth century, everyone knew Lady Audley’s Secret.’
Title: Lady Audley's Secret
Content:  own life. The novel mirrors many of the same themes from the real-life Constance Kent case of June 1860 that gripped the nation with headline news for years. The first instalment of Lady Audley's Secret came out almost exactly one year after the Kent murder. The novel, like the real-life case, featured a wicked stepmother (and former governess who married a gentleman), a mysterious and brutal murder in a country manor house, a body thrown down a well, and characters fascinated by madness. Constance Kent can be seen in many of the female characters in the novel: the murderess Lady Audley, the tomboyish Alicia Audley, the restrained Phoebe Marks and the lonely Clara Talboys. Jack Whicher, the detective and case investigator, can be seen in the character of Robert Audley.
Title: Lady Audley's Secret (1915 film)
Content: Theda Bara as Helen Talboys ; Riley Hatch as Luke Martin ; Clifford Bruce as George Talboys ; Stephen Grattan as Undetermined Role ; Warner Richmond as Sir Michael Audley 
Title: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Content:  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 – 4 February 1915) was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era. She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret, which has also been dramatised and filmed several times.

Question: Who is the author of Lady Audley's Secret?
Answer: Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
Mary Maxwell.
M.E. Braddon.
M. E. Braddon.
Aunt Belinda.
Mary Braddon.