1. Where in the novel do you see issues of gender or equality come up most overtly?
2. How does sympathy work in this novel? How is it created? Who do you have sympathy for? Does this change and why?
3.By the end of the novel, would you characterize Lady Audley as a victim or villain? How is Braddon playing with those categories of victim and villain? How do class and gender influence the way we judge Lady Audley?
