#robert audley

[20genderchild]

alicia: I know what you are 👀

[mxcottonsocks]

Love it when a fictional character has pets.

Aurora Floyd and her horses and dogs. Count Fosco and his cockatoo and canaries and mice. Robert Audley and his canaries and all those silly little dogs that the sporting men laugh at. Barnaby Rudge and Grip the raven. Austin Caxton's duck.

[dinathalawriter]

Queer Novel from 1862

I thought it was in my mind... I mean... 1862.

But the heroes know each other from Eton (which is apparently a hint), and George knew women like" another planet" before he fell in love with one. Robert... WISHES he could be in love with his cousin, the heiress, who wants him, but he in fact hopes she will fall out of love because he can't bring himself to love her. When he meets Clara - she's so much like George: she is his sister. He refers to their eyes, looks, even writing. They spend their honeymoon looking for her brother... who ends up living with them. I mean, it's not one element, it's all.

Google "educating boys to be queer" and "robert audley is absolutely heterosexual"

Jennifer S. Kushnier, Educating Boys to Be Queer: Braddon's "Lady Audley's Secret", Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2002),

[prosari]

I am reading Lady Audley's Secret and I think it's hilarious how it's stated that Robert Audley has never cared about shit in his entire life and how he is described as someone who would die of old age before realizing that he had feelings for another person and yet the moment is best friend George disappears he is like "I would never have a wife, leave everything behind if that meant having him back at my side. I miss him so much." Fellas,

[himblebo]

Robert Audley's Secret:

He's like totally in love with George Talboys

[mxcottonsocks]

1983 radio play adaptation of Lady Audley's Secret:

Mary Elizabeth Braddon Lady Audley's Secret : SANWAL : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Saturday-Night Theatre: Lady Audley's SecretSat 12th Mar 1983, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FMBy Mary Elizabeth Braddon adapted for radio by Jack Gr

Robert to George: Now that we've found each other again, I've no intention of losing you! Me: 🙃

[mxcottonsocks]

If any one had ventured to tell Mr. Robert Audley that he could possibly feel a strong attachment to any creature breathing, that cynical gentleman would have elevated his eyebrows in supreme contempt at the preposterous notion. Yet here he was, flurried and anxious, bewildering his brain by all manner of conjectures about his missing friend; and false to every attribute of his nature, walking fast.

- Lady Audley's Secret

I love him so much.

[ilex-sparrow]

Robert Audley: *barges into locksmith's house* hey why were you in my house- stop being embarrassed I don't care if you have prostitutes over answer the question. Im looking for my missing boyfriend best friend, I have better things to do.