Acton, William, 12, 80–83, 86

adultery, 12, 36, 42, 68, 71

Angel in the House. See domestic woman

Arnold, Matthew, 24, 114

Austen, Jane, 9, 81, 88, 100

autonomy, xi, 6, 26, 64, 71, 90, 164, 180, 182–183, 186–187, 193, 204, 207, 209–210

Bade, Patrick, 9, 23, 30, 109

Balzac, Honore de, 23, 39, 41–44, 47–48, 66, 96, 151, 154

Cousin Bette,, 39, 51, 53, 150

cousin Bette, 2, 40, 42–43, 47

Valerie Marneff, 2, 39–45, 51–53, 106, 110, 150

Baudelaire, Charles, 30–31

Bentley, Richard, 15

bigamy, 2, 12, 36, 88–89, 93, 110, 112, 138

Blagden, Isa, 76

Boumelha, Penny, 181

bourgeois society. See middle-class

compared to prostitutes, 28

education of, 7, 13, 67, 70, 77, 80, 113–114, 124, 132, 201

feminism, 77, 132

as readers, 5, 19, 31, 89, 94, 99, 101, 103, 123–124, 127, 129, 135, 167–168, 174, 177, 181, 184–185, 192, 199

Braddon, M. E., xviii, 2–3, 8, 15, 25, 45, 65, 69, 90–94, 96–105

Braddon, M. E. (continued), 109–110, 113, 118–120, 122–125, 127, 133, 138–139, 206

Bronte, Charlotte, 82

Broughton, Rhoda, 11, 96, 100, 103–104, 109

censorship, 3, 96, 100, 184, 195

city conditions

sanitation, 4

urbanization, 4, 24

Claridge, Laura, 184

Cleopatra, 2, 6–7, 10, 16, 141

Collins, Wilkie, 2–4, 13, 15, 32, 35, 69, 93, 104–105, 118, 142–143, 146–148, 152–155, 164, 166, 176, 206

Allan Armadale, 7, 9, 31, 33–35, 37–38, 96, 141–166, 176, 206

Armadale,, 2, 7, 13, 16, 32, 51, 70, 104, 106, 131, 141–166, 175, 209

Lydia Gwilt, 2–4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 22, 26, 32–39, 51–52, 60, 70, 96, 106, 110, 141–166, 175–176, 209

Midwinter, 7, 16, 32, 35–39, 144–166, 175–176, 209

Mother Oldershaw, 7, 35, 161–162, 165–166

conduct books, 81, 87, 104, 123, 134

conservative reformers, 12, 25, 80

contagion, 95, 155