Good Lady Ducayne by Mary E Braddon
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 - 4 February 1915) was a renowned English novelist of the Victorian era, celebrated for her sensational works. Her most famous creation, "Lady Audley's Secret," published in 1862, achieved both literary acclaim and multiple adaptations on stage and screen.
Born in Soho, London, Braddon received a private education. Her parents, Henry and Fanny, separated when she was just five years old due to her father's infidelity. At the age of ten, her brother Edward Braddon departed for India and later became the Premier of Tasmania. To support herself and her mother, Mary worked as an actress for three years, befriending Clara and Adelaide Biddle during this period. Although they had minor roles, acting provided her with a means of livelihood until her growing interest in writing novels led her away from the stage.
In April 1861, Mary met John Maxwell (1824-1895), a publisher of periodicals, and moved in with him. However, Maxwell was already married to Mary Ann Crowley and had five children with her. While Mary and Maxwell lived together as a couple, Crowley resided with her family. In 1864, Maxwell attempted to legitimize their relationship by publicly claiming they were married, but this was refuted by Richard Brinsley Knowles, Mary's brother-in-law, who revealed that Maxwell's true wife was still alive. Mary acted as a stepmother to Maxwell's children until 1874 when Maxwell's wife passed away, and they were finally able to marry at St. Bride's Church in Fleet Street. Together, they had six children: Gerald, Fanny, Francis, William, Winifred Rosalie, and Edward Herry Harrington.
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I have this story in an anthology of vampire stories. It's called Dracula's Brood. I bought it in 1988 in a pound shop in Dublin. I still have it. Quite a twist at the end.
This was one of my favorites!!!! Awesome narration and a happy ending!
Would have preferred not to see it was from a vampire book bc it is a bit of a spoiler but it’s not too typical a vampire story and I am so much happier with this title! It’s a very good story, so well written…❤
@@mariameere5807same, gutted my eyes landed on this comment right at the start of the story 😑
Yeah! Thanks for that....not!!
There's always one.🙄
Thank you so much Karen! I am ready to listen again now bc you reminded me how good this one is! Haven’t been to Dublin in years! I am from co. Clare but living in London since just about 16! That was late 90s but these days at that age you are still a child! I’m presuming you are living there!
Anyway I have my story for tonight picked out thanks to you! I am one of those people who watch their favourite movies or read their favourite books over and over again!! But they have to be good! I am constantly listening to Agatha Christie audiobooks over and over and over and….. blessings angel girl 😉🙏♾‼️
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Absolutely thrilled! I would never buy books (or anything else) from Amazon because of their 'ethics', for years now but subsequent to listening to your problems with them, have just checked with my local go-to-online book shop. YES! 'Further Ghost Stories' can be purchased from Fishpond here in New Zealand. Thrilling news!
Wonderful!
Tony is world renowned his work is everywhere. Tony are you going to do any live recordings from haunted places this year I always hoped you would I remember you talking about it when you were getting the channel going.
I always look forward to every story you narrate. What I absolutely love your facts, history and ramblings. You are absolutely the best at everything you do. I'm just very grateful that you are in my life. ❤
Wow, thank you. Very kind words
How I love a good gothic tale! I’m ashamed to say I am unfamiliar with this author but will now make a point of reading her work. Excellent narration made this all the more enjoyable.
I was so glad this didn't turn out to be a vampire story, a bit more sophisticated than the usual horror. Nice narration as always!
A different sort of vampire . . .
Loved this. Although I was fearful of a sad ending.... You are such a talent!
Love the way you read!!!!! Excellent! Outstanding!
Thank you kindly!
I look forward to these stories on a Friday it's a wonderful way to start the weekend Thank you Tony for all your hard work
I'm really enjoying these podcasts and I really enjoy the commentary afterwards, some of the stuff you say has me really LOL, "we don't cry, we'd get battered" 😂
Wow. I thought I'd read all of Ms. Braddon's works. Thank you Tony. I shall listen to this in bed tonight.
I loved this; can you recommend others?
LOL Throwing spaghetti at the wall is a real thing! At least at my house it is. Thanks, Mr. Tony, for a great read!
Oh I loved this Tony, thank you. It was really good actually to have a happy ending. It was really beautifully written and lovely to listen to. Vampire type stories can be a bit predictable but this had a unique little spark about it.
I do agree that Rebecca is a truly excellent novel.
I've been too busy lately to be a constant listener---but I loved listening to this one tonight! I've never read it before and thoroughly enjoyed both the writing and your characterizations. Thank you so much for all you do. How delightful a twist for one of these selections to have a somewhat pleasant ending. Best wishes for a good October ahead!
Me too, too busy to listen to anything, I know I will look forward to having many more to listen to now.
Absolutely captivating! I believe this narrator could read the entries of a phone book and keep me riveted.
Captivating narration, Tony. Love your commentaries. Much needed and appreciated as always, My local web-bookshop SAXO provides your books without problems. Thank you, tony, for all you do.
I enjoy listening to your voice. I like the way you think. Thanks for sharing your Amazon Corruption story. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Thank you and Merry Christmas 🎅
Beautifully narrated. Even the French and Italian accent sound authentic.
I used to listen to Librivox and loved all the old stories from her and others! Lady Audley’s secret is great!
Great writer , I love Mary Braddon. Her own life story reads like one of her own novels. She was never married unusually for a victorian.young lady, she "lived in sin" with Maxwell with whom she had 6 children, & she went from being his protegeé to becoming his live in mistress & mother to his own children, after his poor wife Mary Anne Crowley was locked up in a Dublin mental asylum.
The Cold Embrace is another of her very good ghost stories.
She wrote prolifically and many of her stories appear in supernatural ,& Horror compilations.
Lady Audleys secret is a great story of mystery & murder ..but she wrote many good novels She should be much more respected & lauded in my opinion.
I love Lady Audley's Secret!
I hate to correct your facts but she did marry Maxwell and had 1 child out of wedlock but after Ann died they were married and had 6 more children so a total of 7 children and two of her sons became successful writers as well! Great job otherwise!
I really enjoyed this one! I do love a vampire story! Your rendition of Dracula was brilliant too. I just got back from visiting Whitby ( not for the first time) found myself in a lovely bookshop with an entire bookcase full of different copies of Dracula 😄
Whitby was nice but HEAVING! Bit too busy for my liking. Your experience with Amazon sounds awful, thank goodness for that silver lining. I've never had an account with them..never will.
Your Ghost Story / Haunted House idea sounds really good. Unfortunately I'm broke. Sales have really dipped, I guess we're all struggling..but very good to be able to listen to your stories on here , many thanks 🙏
This was certainly wonderfully written.
I am new to your podcaste. Great story well told. I was not expecting your additional piece about the author which came as a lovely surprise. I live close to Richmond and will visit the church to view the plaque. Thank you.
I knew what the old woman was about the first time her and Bella met. Great story 👌🏾
Thank you so Much for your time and hard work narrating this awesome tale, ❤
I love this story and your narration is the very best certainly for this genre!!
Happy New Year to Everyone Here 🎉🎈🫶🎉🎈🎉❤
Andréa and Jasper. ..XxX...💞🕊️
Ps, Many Thanks, I am stuck in my bed with pneumonia,
so I am very grateful for your fantastic narrations and,❤
~ I love the Blethering at the end!!❤ Brilliant!!❤
Pps,I am in Carlisle now, and I have been living here for three decades now!!❤
~I feel like I'm Home here,,
it's a wonderful thing,
because I have never had any roots,
I was always moving,
as a family we were moving around so very much!!❤
Happy New Year. get well soon
Wow 🎉 Happy New Year to You and Yours!!❤
I'm so Pleased to have Found you,
My lad is also named Jasper and is a little Tyke from Raffles,
and is now 12years young,
Many Thanks for your Reply and Kindness!!
Poor lal guy is Loathing the Fireworks,
and has been forced to go to his Bug Out Shelter,,,
Under the Duvet, by my feet,,,,
Hubby says that he's got to be scared to be so close to my feet!! 😮😅🎉
Ooooo a different kind of vampire story!!
LOL I just put this on my Home Gym TV. I now have this monster old lady glaring at me in 4K!
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💗💞 thank you Tony. Very pleased I can come here and listen to these wonderful stories.
Ok. Lets try this again. Your voice is so soothing i fell asleep! It was the best Ive had in weeks. 😊
Thanks Tony great story brilliant narration.
Thanks for listening
So glad to hear the update after the Amazon debacle. My husband and I are cancelling our prime membership and some other plans to start our disentanglement from them. My son is also planning to do the same. I calculated we've been spending $500 a year (US) just for the audible, Kindle and prime. That's not counting the physical product we've ordered. I'm hopeful this will save us a bundle. Thanks for sharing your experience with them.
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I'm so happy to see a story in which the ancient lady isn't a witch or a ghost or a vampire. She's awful in her dehumanizing of poor people, of course, and her using up of others' youth.
A sweet story thank you Tony
Thanks for listening
I'd thought she was a vampire, and was certain I had it sorted, lOL Nice twist, and I loved the Gothic feel. You did such a professional job, lovely.
Bella L
Just started listening to your podcast and you do a great job. Also like listening to you talk at the end just as much as your storytelling. Also you have an amazing voice for this.
Welcome aboard! And thanks
Your Rebecca is FANTASTIC!!! Thank You!!!
+Gisela Tranchell Thank you :))
This really needed to be made. There's only one other Good Lady Ducayne reading on UA-cam and it is God awful.
I swear some storyteller channels use AI, they're so wooden! Tony is a gem.
Interesting! Not at all what I was expecting, and I love being surprised. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Tony! Very enjoyable tale.
This was a great read! Your narration is awesome. I really love this channel and I so appreciate it. I don’t get to read books like I used to because of life and work. But your channel allows me to keep “reading” 🖤 Thank you!!!!
This is a delightful story, from happy always with a wonderful Mom no matter how less they lived, to a blessed ending 🤗
I really enjoyed this. Tony' s narration is wonderful. Your channel has provided me many happy hours of listening. Thank you!
Very enjoyable, thank you Tony!
Tony, I have so much enjoyment from listening to your narrations. Rebecca was a dream come true. Have you ever thought about the Rime of the Ancient Mariner? Or any Poe? Maybe I've missed some of them?
Well i’ve been doing this a while so you will find some Poe and Rime here
I like your reading and chat after. The description of characters and joining up the relationships was great however the give away of the other girls dying spoiled it for me I knew what was coming. Looking forward to listening to more from you ❤
I really enjoyed this and listened to what you said afterwards ❤
Thank you :)
Love this story, just under the skin 😱🥰 thank you for a wonderful narration 🥰
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love Mary Braddon's work too. You're so right about her natural and fluent way with words - so different to many of her contemporary authors, easy on the lips as well as on the ear. It gives her writing a remarkably modern feel (and I mean that in a good way) :)
Really lovely story! I enjoyed this very much!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
A very good story and narration❤
Love your voice Detroit Mamma!
Loved this story and the reading of it. I could see the characters and the scenery in Italy.
I really enjoy you chats at the end of the story and the way that you “go off on one” 😂
New subscriber here 🎃 My favorite channels on UA-cam are the storytellers, and you have a great voice for it! Thanks so much for the creepy tale!
Thanks for subbing!
Such a delight to listen this evening! How I would love to travel to a reading.
Loved your Rebecca reading. And then I watched the movie with Lawrence Olivier. Just grand. Thank for introducing us to such a wonderful other world. 😊
I’m very pleased
Thank you sir😊
That was a great tale, really well read. Lancaster, Lancashire. Live reading in Lancaster Castle.
love Lancaster and the castle
Thanks!
Welcome! Thank you. Very kind and much appreciated
Halooo from Tasmania, former resident of electoral division of Braddon! 😁
Now living in Lyons at the Port Arthur end of things.
So if you ever feel lik doing a live from Australia's most haunted location, you're welcome with, us on the beach. Grumpy big cat included.
A really modern Vampire story this one, kind of science based; a really good approach to an old genera at the time. With a romantic end. What more could I ask for on a Saturday morning?
I'm sure this inspired that Doctor Who story of Vampire's in Venice which featured the much missed Helen McRory.
Thanks Tony!
Do you have The Sad Story of a Vampire by Count Stenbok? That one is incredibly good.
1st time listener, and very glad I stopped by😎 Great voice, great ol' tale.
Welcome aboard!
Thank you for the story. I enjoyed it immensely.
He said Lady Ducayne you have seen all the sunshine your going to get
I. Love. Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Thanks, Tony.
I guess she earned the “good lady” title in the end despite her evil deeds. She’d have been better off dismissing the girls with some money before they got really ill, then nobody would have had a problem with her.
That is really the solution. How come she didn't think of that! Then she'd have got away with it all.
Omg how could I have missed this! Great picture!! Love this! Thank you so much Tony❤
You are so welcome
Thank you
You are welcome
This was a great story, thank you! Such a charming good old Lady...
Oh I LOVE "Rebecca"... how can anyone NOT like it??.💜
Great story and narration! I really like the plot and characters.
I am glad you have a solution to get your works published. It seems like it is working itself out. Can we get your books in the U.S.?
You can get my books in the US . just go to your local bookstore and order them. if enough people order they will start to stock them
I would think it would be good to tell ghost stories in a castle. If you are going to do it please post on your UA-cam channel. Thank you.
Enjoyed this
Magnificent story 😊
Thank you! 🙂
Yayyyy a long one!! 💜
I loved this one!
“There’s Dracula, we have Camila” 😅😂 👍🏾
I have a cat named Cosmo and his sister is Jinx, and both names suit them well. Rastus and Lulu send licks and love to Ruby and Jasper. BTW, I thoroughly enjoyed this story. I kept expecting more evil deeds, but I was genuinely engaged in the story and liked the way it ended. 💜
To borrow from Harlan Ellison, "I have the heart of a young man. It's in a jar in my closet."😊
A happy ending! Delightful 😊
I'm glad that Herbert never told Bella the truth about Lady Ducayne. Much nicer to think that her former employer was concerned about her health and wanted to bless her with a stack of cash than to know that you were hired to be a source of blood for a life-hungry old leech.
Agreed
Thanks for the reading; I enjoyed it. I’m a gal that likes happy endings or at least justice.
What was wrong with the author’s brother that he didn’t support his sister and mother?!? Guess he was as selfish as his father.
Great story
in the old days, you had to sell your soul for riches. now you sell your soul for bare survival.
I almost missed this because I assumed from the thumbnail image it was just another story about Dianne Feinstein...
I believe Feinstein passed away yesterday!
Excellent! Thank you!
"I had to do 97 takes" it was Lovecraft, just tell us. :)
I could possibly say
Please let me know how i can sign up for more of your wonderful readings of hauntings, vampires, whatever.
You can just stay here or become a patron www.patreon.com/barcud
Don’t focus on the trolls. We love what you do.
thanks 🙏 ❤️
I loved the ending!
Looking forward to Halloween! I hope you have something special up your sleeve 😈
Anyone else feel like Tony's conversation at the end is like an old timey (techinal term😅) letter from a friend from the other side of the world that you never get to see. I'm South African so I guess it is from a different part of the world.
Funnily enough my inspiration was Alistair Cooke’s Letter From America
That story fit your mouth beautifully. 😊❤
Narration A
Writing B+
Story B+
(could have been A but.. different times different thrills)
Hey Tony, sorry…nothing to do with vampires at all, but just wondering if you’ve ever heard of a book called Uneasy Freehold by Dorothy McArdle, written in 1942.
I just found out that one of my favourite films was based on this book: The Uninvited, 1944 with Ray Milland & Gail Russell. The film is not streaming anywhere in my area and I am unable to find its source book either. If you know the film, I’m hoping that the book is better, as they usually are. I am willing to listen to it audibly, read it on Kindle or even on paper. If
you know of it, I would appreciate a lead or maybe even a read on Classic Ghost Stories? …for that’s exactly what it is. The film anyway, has impressed me for years.
Thanks so much for your great reads.
I liked Bella so much and I got so scared for her that that I went straight to the end to see if she too had died.🤭 I do so love a happy ending!❤
Great reading... as an early story of this type, it reminds me of Luella Miller.
Wonderful. Quite enjoyed the
“modern” medical nature of the vampire and how it was done- still a vampire in my opinion, still a witch and a demon.
I agree. A modern vampire or at least a victorian one
ha ha ha. So as Tony was finishing the story, but before he started addressing the audience my immediate thoughts were how easy a story this was to listen to. Often, I will track back to not lose pertinent details but I didn't have to do that with this, at all. Sure, I missed some details, but always knew setting, time, character, and plot progress without needing to try so it made me laugh when Tony started his commentary mentioning how easy the story is to narrate.
This was really enjoyable, I’m just outside Lancaster so between the Moor Hospital ( where I worked on days and nights) The Royal Albert Hospital, (where my friends worked) Lancaster Castle, the old Masonic Hall, well anywhere the council haven’t converted into the slums of the future, so I’m used to company but they only scared the living bjesus out of me really badly once, throwing chairs around in empty room, opening and slamming cutlery drawers in the kitchen, it was a dreadful night.
I really like Lancaster . the part round the castle is so atmospheric. I like the little second hand bookshop next to the craft bakery
I understand the frustration idve been just the same.
Getting that doctor to do that stuff?
1:06.50 "When one tries to rise above, nature ones liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Too bad these wealth business people that avove nature and a lot of time, the law!!
Spooky live stories in a castle sounds wonderful! The guests could play a game of Smee afterward. 🖤👻
:)
I wanted to add I agree with your thoughts on Amazon.