Title: The doctor's wife
First published: 1864
Description: 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Physicians' spouses, Fiction, psychological, Great britain, fiction, Middle class, Adultery
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PR4989.M4 D63 1998