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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... Women Protected?” l/Vestminster Review 137 (1892)= 43—48Barbara Leigh Smith [later Bodichonj. A BriefSummary, in Plain Language, ofthe Most Important Laws Concerning Women (1854). In Barhara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place ...
... Women, andMinors”: Victorian W/riting by Women on Women, ed. Susan Hamilton, 271—86. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 1995. Charles Dickens. The Life andAdventures ofMartin Chuzzlewit. Ed. P. N. Furbank. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1986 ...
... women's property law, divorce law, conjugal rights—that I contemplated all the time. Like Holmes, I have learned new ways of reading, and in time my footnote became an article, and the article became this book. In the process, fictional ...
... women have of late years held a distressingly prominent position. It is no exaggeration to say, that scarcely a day passes that does not add one or more to the published cases of this description of offence” (OW, – ). To show ...
... Women Protected?” and filled the Westminster Review's pages with bloody narratives of wife battery while deploring ... women's rights. Did the husband control his wife's body? Her behavior? How should this authority be exercised? Was ...
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 |