# Doctor's Wife

An audiobook by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, read by LibriVox volunteers (18 h, English).

This is one of the Victorian “Sensationist” Mary Elizabeth Braddon's many novels (best known among them: “Lady Audley’s Secret”). It is extremely well written, fluid, humorous and, in places, self-mocking: one of the main characters is a Sensation Author. The motifs of the-woman-with-a-secret, adultery, and death are classic “sensationist” material. Yet this is also a self-consciously serious work of literature, taking on various social themes of the day. Specifically, Braddon presents the psychological struggle and cognitive dissonance which are the inevitable plight of the married middle-class woman with a strong sense of self, who is essentially constrained to live the life of her husband. In this, it echoes Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary.” The heroine, Isabel Sleaford, was driven early in her childhood to bury herself in, and develop her sense of self through, romantic novels and poetry. She is thus ill-adapted to the conventional, provincial structures and strictures laid upon her when she marries the very good and adoring, but also boring and unimaginative, Dr. George Gilbert. Isabel forms friendships with men (including her husband's best friend) who are more amenable to her…

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## Chapters

1. Chapter 1 (16:49): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_01_braddon_64kb.mp3
2. Chapter 2 (30:57): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_02_braddon_64kb.mp3
3. Chapter 3 (45:38): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_03_braddon_64kb.mp3
4. Chapter 4 (29:25): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_04_braddon_64kb.mp3
5. Chapter 5 (35:05): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_05_braddon_64kb.mp3
6. Chapter 6 (34:05): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_06_braddon_64kb.mp3
7. Chapter7 (43:58): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_07_braddon_64kb.mp3
8. Chapter 8 (14:22): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_08_braddon_64kb.mp3
9. Chapter 9 (20:10): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_09_braddon_64kb.mp3
10. Chapter 10 (18:56): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_10_braddon_64kb.mp3
11. Chapter 11 (25:23): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_11_braddon_64kb.mp3
12. Chapter 12 (46:26): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_12_braddon_64kb.mp3
13. Chapter 13 (33:56): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_13_braddon_64kb.mp3
14. Chapter 14 (31:02): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_14_braddon_64kb.mp3
15. Chapter 15 (13:48): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_15_braddon_64kb.mp3
16. Chapter 16 (29:37): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_16_braddon_64kb.mp3
17. Chapter 17 (48:48): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_17_braddon_64kb.mp3
18. Chapter 18 (33:17): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_18_braddon_64kb.mp3
19. Chapter 19 (17:35): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_19_braddon_64kb.mp3
20. Chapter 20 (32:32): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_20_braddon_64kb.mp3
21. Chapter 21 (26:19): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_21_braddon_64kb.mp3
22. Chapter 22 (19:41): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_22_braddon_64kb.mp3
23. Chapter 23 (23:42): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_23_braddon_64kb.mp3
24. Chapter 24 (23:35): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_24_braddon_64kb.mp3
25. Chapter 25 (31:01): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_25_braddon_64kb.mp3
26. Chapter 26 (31:56): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_26_braddon_64kb.mp3
27. Chapter 27 (25:14): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_27_braddon_64kb.mp3
28. Chapter 28 (21:00): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_28_braddon_64kb.mp3
29. Chapter 29 (14:33): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_29_braddon_64kb.mp3
30. Chapter 30 (30:16): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_30_braddon_64kb.mp3
31. Chapter 31 (28:44): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_31_braddon_64kb.mp3
32. Chapter 32 (28:59): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_32_braddon_64kb.mp3
33. Chapter 33 (35:44): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_33_braddon_64kb.mp3
34. Chapter 34 (20:26): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_34_braddon_64kb.mp3
35. Chapter 35 (17:26): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_35_braddon_64kb.mp3
36. Chapter 36 Part 1 (30:33): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_36_braddon_64kb.mp3
37. Chapter 36 Part 2 (41:00): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_37_braddon_64kb.mp3
38. Chapter 37 (27:53): https://archive.org/download/doctors_wife_1204_librivox/doctorswife_38_braddon_64kb.mp3