Comments on: Lady Audley’s Super Secret Readalong: In which we learn that Robert reads Dumas fils even though Dumas pere is markedly superior

By: Hanna @ Booking in Heels

Hanna @ Booking in Heels — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 12:52:12 +0000

Since I figured out the bigamy one in the second chapter, I’m hoping the second secret is slightly better concealed and more suspensefully revealed, but my hopes — I’ll be honest — are not that high.

Hey, she’s gotten this far without hammering us over the head with what the secret is – it’s a start! I’m hoping for something juicy too, as I haven’t got the faintest idea what it could be. Unless she was just referring to the original secret, of course – that she wasn’t dead and they’d already planned it.

OH GOD, I LOVE YOUR VERSION. I really, really, really wish it would turn out that way, although my hopes aren’t high.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 23:09:38 +0000

I feel quite pleased that unbeknownst to me, while I was out of blog commission, I read this! I am too late to be part of the readalong, but I still feel that I am inadvertently part of the community. Hoorah!

By: @MegsGranger

@MegsGranger — Fri, 30 May 2014 20:27:42 +0000

In reply to Gin Jenny. I support that decision.

By: moinsvolatile

moinsvolatile — Fri, 30 May 2014 19:58:45 +0000

In reply to Gin Jenny.

I honestly wanted to come and comment on my only exposure about Essex being that people call Essex-residents Slags and that there is a horrible show about Essex on Hulu.

The “main character” of which was on Nevermind the Buzzcocks a while ago and really… seemed like the British Snooki.

(Also don’t get your hopes up about that secret).

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Fri, 30 May 2014 19:05:30 +0000

In reply to @MegsGranger. I GUESS, but I am choosing to bring my own values to the book in order to criticize George and Robert freely. :p

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Fri, 30 May 2014 19:05:01 +0000

In reply to Laura Rowsell (@LauraRowsell). It's okay. I know that you were thinking it. Everyone thinks it. Yeah! If George were a more blameless, less irritating fellow, I'd feel differently about the whole affair. But three years is a LONG TIME not to get in touch with your wife at all, and Robert seems totally unfazed by it.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Fri, 30 May 2014 19:03:39 +0000

In reply to aliceburton. I USED TO LIKE YOU TOO UNTIL YOU MADE THAT JOKE JUST NOW.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Fri, 30 May 2014 19:03:21 +0000

In reply to Alley. At least everyone on the readalong is complaining about it! Because, yeah, Robert is definitely not giving that its full weight. George is a poophead.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Fri, 30 May 2014 19:02:40 +0000

In reply to chrisbookarama. Plus it would get Lady Audley off the hook. That would be nice.

By: @MegsGranger

@MegsGranger — Thu, 29 May 2014 22:20:47 +0000

George DID abandon his wife and child, but it wouldn’t have looked that way to Rob or anyone else. In the context of this time period, George did what the man is supposed to do and sought a way to provide for his family. What would have been considered far more villainous is the fact that HELEN abandoned her infant son. That would have been unforgivable. And, really, we still have a lot of that mentality…as seen in the still widespread disapproval of working mothers.

But Victorian societal opinions aside, Helen was in a shit situation.