Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian FictionThe Offenses Against the Person Act of 1828 opened magistrates’ courts to abused working-class wives. Newspapers in turn reported on these proceedings, and in this way the Victorian scrutiny of domestic conduct began. But how did popular fiction treat “private” family violence? Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction traces novelists’ engagement with the wife-assault debates in the public press between 1828 and the turn of the century. |
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... Crimes against Women and Children.” W/estminster Review 169 (1908): 550—53. You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as ...
... Crime.” Strand Magazine3 (1892): 175—81. John Stuart Mill. “Protection ofWomen.” Sunday Times, 24 August 1851, 2b. Arthur Christopher Benson and Viscount Esher, eds. The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty ...
... crime, against whom, and how. But not so fast. Holmes notices that though three wine glasses are soiled, only one contains bees-wing, a crust that forms in fine wines after long storage. He also wonders how the criminals managed to use ...
... crimes against the person.3 Drafted in part because of popular concern about “disputes between man and wife,” the act extended summary jurisdiction to common assault You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University ...
... crimes of assault on wives and sexual partners, including the infamous “Red Barn Murder” of May , in which William Corder killed his lover, Maria Marten, and buried her body in a shallow grave in the floor of the barn (Times ...
Contents
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Domestic Violence and MiddleClass Manliness Dombey and Son | 44 |
From Regency Violence to Victorian Feminism The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | 72 |
The Abused Woman and the Community Janets Repentance | 103 |
Strange Revelations The Divorce Court the Newspaper and The Woman in White | 132 |
The Private Eye and the Public Gaze He Knew He Was Right | 165 |