Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society
From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes
Authors: Godfrey, E.
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- About this book
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This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually wide-ranging number of subjects from hatpin crimes to the development of martial arts for women.
- About the authors
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EMELYNE GODFREY graduated with a Ph.D. in English from Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. A freelance writer and researcher, she writes academic articles, dictionary and encyclopaedia entries and poetry, and gives lectures to societies. She is a regular contributor to History Today and is the Publicity Officer for the H.G. Wells Society.
- Reviews
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"Femininity, Crime and Self-Defense is a superb addition to New Woman studies and a potential rich resource for scholars in late-Victorian and Edwardian literary scholarship." - Lena Wånggren, University of Edinburgh, UK
"Opening up new areas for research in the fields of women's history, but also detective fiction and urban studies, this book's major contribution to Victorian and Edwardian studies is in unsettling the reader's perceptions, insisting that we look again at what we think we already know." - Carolyn Oulton, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-11
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On the Street
Pages 15-25
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Danger en Route
Pages 26-32
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Behind Closed Doors in Mona Caird’s The Wing of Azrael (1889)
Pages 33-63
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Elizabeth Robins’s The Convert
Pages 67-85
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society
- Book Subtitle
- From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes
- Authors
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- E. Godfrey
- Series Title
- Crime Files
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-28456-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137284563
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-30031-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-33610-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 192
- Topics
