{"id":581,"date":"2017-09-06T12:14:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=581"},"modified":"2017-12-06T09:41:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:41:15","slug":"lady-audleys-mysterious-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2017\/09\/06\/lady-audleys-mysterious-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Audley’s Mysterious Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u201c It was neither a locket, a miniature, nor a cross: it was a ring wrapped in an oblong piece of paper-the paper \u00a0 \u00a0partly printed, partly written, yellow with age, and crumpled with much folding.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In this quote, taken from the first chapter of Mary Elizabeth Braddon book titled <\/span>Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/span><\/i>, it seems that Lucy Graham has some sort of grave secret that she is hiding from the world. The ring and the crumpled paper gives the reader a mysterious darker insight of Lady Audley\u2019s past. Her reputation within the book thus far has only been about how positive, light hearted and amiable she is. Getting further into the rest of the chapters in the novel, the ring, and crumpled paper connects with a similar story of how George Talboys left his wife and child to sail off to Australia in order to make money to provide for his family. He left a brief note to his wife Helen before he sailed off. \u00a0After he returns home three years later, he reads in the newspaper how his beloved wife had died about a week before. Mr. Talboy finding out about his wife\u2019s death occurs the same time as when Lucy Graham agrees to marry Michael Audley. This is critical because, in the passage above, the description of the objects that are listed seem as though the crumpled paper can represent the letter and the ring a previous marriage. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The most vivid description in the passage above is what condition the paper is in. It seems that Lady Audley has read the letter but always keeps it fold up. It is interesting how Lady Audley keeps these trinkets tied to the black ribbon around her neck. This could signify that these trinkets are sentimental to her, and gives the reader the opportunity to ask questions and make connections on \u201cwhy\u201d the actual reason she is so secretive and the true significance it represents. Essentially these trinkets that Lucy Audley is hiding, can be key evidence in resolving her mysterious darker past. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u201c It was neither a locket, a miniature, nor a cross: it was a ring wrapped in an oblong piece of paper-the paper \u00a0 \u00a0partly printed, partly written, yellow with age, and crumpled with much folding.\u201d   \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In this quote, taken from the first chapter of Mary Elizabeth Braddon book titled Lady Audley\u2019s … Continue reading Lady Audley’s Mysterious Past<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}