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Charlotte's Inheritance

Author
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Language
English
Length
428 pages
ISBN
9781836101468
Published
3 February 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • Victorian fiction
  • inheritance
  • social ambition
  • love versus duty
  • class conflict
  • hidden past
  • moral dilemma
  • romantic tension
  • personal sacrifice
  • societal expectations

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Description

Charlotte Halliday stands between a great inheritance and her stepfather Philip Sheldon, whose quiet poisoning scheme Valentine Hawkehurst must expose in time. Braddon's sensation novel of greed, medical deceit, and a rescue by love. Fortune and a life hang on who sees through respectability first.

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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