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The Mary Elizabeth Braddon Library

The Mary Elizabeth Braddon Library

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Welcome, dear listener, to The Mary Elizabeth Braddon Library. A chamber of secrets, a gallery of restless hearts, and a lantern-lit corridor of whispered confessions.

Here, behind the drawn curtain and within the quiet walls of respectable houses, you shall find what polite society would rather leave undiscovered: hidden marriages, perilous affections, fortunes won and lost, and heroines whose beauty is rivalled only by their resolve. In these pages, love is seldom safe, innocence is not always pure, and the past is never so thoroughly buried as one might wish.Public domain Hourly
Episodes
  • Aurora Floyd Chapter VII

    Aurora Floyd Chapter VII
    Jun 20 2026
    In which Aurora Floyd, radiant with newly pledged happiness, returns to her family home and embraces a life of gaiety and charity amid her impending marriage to Talbot Bulstrode, while a troubled past lingers unseen in the figure of a weathered pensioner who seeks her aid. A moment of unexpected confrontation in the winter woodlands reveals tensions beneath the surface, as Aurora resolutely asserts her independence and generosity despite her fiancé's unease.
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    40 mins
  • Aurora Floyd Chapter IX

    Aurora Floyd Chapter IX
    Jun 20 2026
    In which Talbot Bulstrode experiences a day of anxious searching and painful revelation upon receiving a letter from his mother hinting at a secret in Aurora Floyd's past, leading to a sobering and heart-rending confrontation between them. Their tender engagement is overshadowed by mysteries left untold, and Talbot is compelled to face the bitter prospect of a life without the woman he had hoped to marry.
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    21 mins
  • Aurora Floyd Chapter VIII

    Aurora Floyd Chapter VIII
    Jun 20 2026
    In which the gentle melancholy of rejected love shadows John Mellish’s weary return from Paris to Felden Woods, where he confronts the painful realities of unshared affections amidst the warmth of familial Christmas gatherings. Meanwhile, uneasy suspicions and ill-concealed sorrows stir beneath the festive cheer, as Aurora Floyd reveals a sudden and silent malady that bewilders those who hold her dear.
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    22 mins
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