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The Lady's Mile: A Novel

Author
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
15 hours 36 minutes
ISBN
9781836100157
Published
5 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • Victorian fiction
  • society romance
  • artistic ambition
  • love and desire
  • social class
  • London society
  • family expectations
  • temptation
  • moral conflict
  • romantic intrigue

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The Lady’s Mile is a Victorian society romance of love, ambition, and social constraint. Struggling painter Philip Foley pines for the charming Florence Crawford, while proud but impoverished Lady Cecil Chudleigh navigates attraction to the magnetic Captain Hector Gordon. Between London’s glittering salons and Hampshire’s quiet coast, Braddon explores class tension, desire, and the collision of personal aspiration with societal expectation, weaving a tale of passion, intrigue, 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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