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The doctor's wife (1864)

The doctor's wife (1864)

Psychological Fiction

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Year: 1864
Authors: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Print type: BOOK

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.