Aurora Floyd

With Lady Audley''s Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon had established herself, alongside Wilkie Collins and Mrs Henry Wood, as one of the ruling triumvirate of `sensation novelists''. Aurora Floyd, following hot on its heels, achieved almost equal popularity and notoriety. P.D. Edwards''s introduction evaluates the novel''s leading place among `bigamy-novels'' and Braddon''s treatment of the power struggle between the sexes, as well as considering the similarities between the author and her heroine.