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Helen Talboys writes this in a letter to her father, a letter that Mrs. Barkamb (Helen’s former landlady) gives to Robert. This letter explains the motivations of Helen, aka Lady Audley, for abandoning her former life and then committing bigamy by marrying a man while still being married to another. Braddon shows a realistic depiction of how “weary” living in constant poverty can make a person, thus revealing the circumstances that led to Helen’s abandonment of her old life and even her child. This letter also foreshadows Lady Audley’s future confession of her supposed madness, the “secret” to which she…