title: IMPERIAL ATTITUDES IN LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET
abstract: Since 1970s, feminist scholars have interpreted Lady Audley's Secret as censuring horrors of women's domestic lives by treating title character as subversive.1 The problem with these feminist readings of Braddon's novel is that, in re-envisioning Lady Audley as sympathetic character, scholars suggest that Lady Audley' s actions are praiseworthy2 and that her primary antagonist, step-nephew Robert Audley, embodies oppressive circumstances she resists. This kind of interpretation oversimplifies co