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Beyond These Voices

Author
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
11 hours 40 minutes
ISBN
9781802569865
Published
30 December 2025
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • Victorian fiction
  • class conflict
  • romantic passion
  • social ambition
  • mother daughter relationship
  • poverty and pride
  • forbidden love
  • moral struggle
  • family expectations
  • emotional drama

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Beyond These Voices is a Victorian novel of love, loss, and social constraint. Lady Felicia Disbrowe, proud yet impoverished, hopes her beautiful daughter Cara will secure a prosperous future. Defying expectation, Cara falls for the gifted but penniless poet Lancelot Davis, setting passion against duty. As class pressures and personal ambition collide, Braddon explores the cost of love, family loyalty, and the enduring voices of conscience and memory.

Author

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915) was a prominent English novelist and playwright best known for her Victorian sensation fiction. Rising from modest beginnings, she gained fame with Lady Audley’s Secret, which cemented her reputation for blending mystery, psychology, and social critique. Prolific and influential, Braddon wrote more than 80 novels and helped shape popular Victorian literature.

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