03942nam 22008655 450 991095699520332120240312134924.09781283867467128386746X9781137284563113728456010.1057/9781137284563(CKB)2670000000299443(EBL)1094951(OCoLC)819423178(SSID)ssj0000810937(PQKBManifestationID)12365535(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000810937(PQKBWorkID)10833499(PQKB)10855632(SSID)ssj0001658259(PQKBManifestationID)16438446(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001658259(PQKBWorkID)14987860(PQKB)11110696(DE-He213)978-1-137-28456-3(MiAaPQ)EBC1094951(Perlego)3507045(EXLCZ)99267000000029944320151208d2012 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFemininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes /by E. Godfrey1st ed. 2012.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2012.1 online resource (207 p.)Crime Files,2947-8359Description based upon print version of record.9781349336104 1349336106 9780230300316 0230300316 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; Abbreviations; Introduction; Hot-House Flowers; Safety in a 'Dangerous Novel'; Introducing the Texts; 1 On the Street; 'No Males at Men to Stare'?; The Lady is a Tramp; 2 Danger en Route; 'The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist'; Panic on the Line; 3 Behind Closed Doors in Mona Caird's The Wing of Azrael (1889); Perils of the 'Marriage Market'; 'Reading Nature's Plainest Danger-Signals'; Perfect Gentlemen?; Murder; 4 Elizabeth Robins's The Convert; Looking After Herself; War with Mr Wells; Kicking the Suffrage FootballHatpins and Dog-Whips5 The Last Heroine Left?; Exercising Freedom; Lightning Throws and Waltzes with Watts; Potatoes, Policemen and Mrs Garrud; 6 Elizabeth Robins and the 'White Slave Trade' Panic; Following Threads; Shutting In; 'Houses of Hell'; The Girl with the Lamp; 7 Read My Lips; Richard Marsh's World of Crime; The Plate-Glass Partition; Cutting Hair; Handbags at Dawn; The Missing Jewel Case; The Ripper and his Shadow; Trapped; Death by Chocolate; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThis 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.Crime Files,2947-8359FictionLiterature, Modern19th centuryEuropean literatureSexFiction LiteratureNineteenth-Century LiteratureEuropean LiteratureGender StudiesFiction.Literature, ModernEuropean literature.Sex.Fiction Literature.Nineteenth-Century Literature.European Literature.Gender Studies.820.93522Godfrey Emelyne1791983MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910956995203321Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society4335117UNINA