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The Doctor's Wife: A Novel

Author
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
15 hours 42 minutes
ISBN
9781802569872
Published
30 December 2025
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • Victorian fiction
  • marriage
  • romantic idealism
  • emotional growth
  • rural vs urban life
  • moral conflict
  • temptation
  • duty
  • social aspiration
  • personal disillusionment

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The Doctor’s Wife is a Victorian novel of marriage, illusion, and emotional growth. Young medical student George Gilbert leaves his quiet hometown for London, where his life intersects with romantic Isabel Sleaford and literary ambition. Isabel’s dreams of passion and refinement soon clash with reality as love, duty, and temptation test her ideals. Braddon offers a nuanced study of ordinary lives shaped by longing, disappointment, and moral choice.

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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