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Date: 2014-01-30 05:04 am (UTC)I wish I had written Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It's a Victorian novel whose basic plot (so many subthreads LOL) is that a woman's husband essentially abandons her to go to Australia to try and make his fortune. She assumes another identity in order to marry someone wealthy; her husband returns to England, and she's got to keep him from realizing who she is. Spoiler alert: she is not so successful. LOL
It's melodramatic without being ridiculous which I admire highly. As a reader, I love melodrama. I love highly emotional stories and angst and sudden plot twists. I think the Victorians really did melodrama best because they're so endearingly earnest about all the characters faking their deaths or secretly squirreling away illegitimate children or whatever the convoluted plot is. And the language is beautiful; Braddon can turn a phrase so beautifully.
There's some disconnect for me where I just don't seem to be able to write the kinds of stories I most want to read, the ones that really scratch my id. IDK if that's a problem other people have.