惊悚小说盛行于十九世纪六七十年代,这惊悚小说阅读热引起了当时的著名女作家艾略特的关注,她曾撰写评论《愚蠢女性小说家的愚蠢作品》来讽刺惊悚小说,缺少文学性、严肃性。艾略特的小说创作生涯始于1859年的《亚当·比德》,止于《丹尼尔·德隆达》,适逢惊悚小说的鼎盛时期,艾略特与惊悚小说家同属于维多利亚中期这一广阔而复杂的时代背景,其创作特点不免受到其影响。同时期著名惊悚小说家查尔斯·里德在写给《银河》杂志编辑的一封信中 Thriller popular in the sixties and seventies of the nineteenth century, this thriller reading hot aroused the attention of the then famous writer Eliot, she wrote the commentary “foolish female novelist stupid work” to satirical thriller novel, the lack of literature Sexuality, seriousness. Eliot’s novel career began in 1859, “Adam Beard,” ending in “Daniel de Lunda,” coincides with the heyday of the thriller novel, Eliot and the thriller novel belong to the mid-Victorian The broad and complex background of the times, its creative features are inevitably affected by it. In the same letter to the editor of Galaxy, Charles Reid, the famous horror novelist,