LEADER 04102nam 22007695 450 001 9910786583403321 005 20200919163655.0 010 $a1-283-86746-X 010 $a1-137-28456-0 024 7 $a10.1057/9781137284563 035 $a(CKB)2670000000299443 035 $a(EBL)1094951 035 $a(OCoLC)819423178 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000810937 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12365535 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000810937 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10833499 035 $a(PQKB)10855632 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001658259 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16438446 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001658259 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14987860 035 $a(PQKB)11110696 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-28456-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1094951 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000299443 100 $a20151208d2012 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFemininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society$b[electronic resource] $eFrom Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes /$fby E. Godfrey 205 $a1st ed. 2012. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (207 p.) 225 1 $aCrime Files 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-349-33610-6 311 $a0-230-30031-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Football 327 $aHatpins 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; Index 330 $aThis exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually wide-ranging number of subjects from hatpin crimes to the development of martial arts for women. 410 0$aCrime Files 606 $aFiction 606 $aLiterature, Modern?19th century 606 $aBritish literature 606 $aSociology 606 $aFiction$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/825000 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/821000 606 $aBritish and Irish Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/833000 606 $aGender Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35000 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?19th century. 615 0$aBritish literature. 615 0$aSociology. 615 14$aFiction. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aBritish and Irish Literature. 615 24$aGender Studies. 676 $a820.93522 700 $aGodfrey$b E$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01521726 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786583403321 996 $aFemininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society$93772273 997 $aUNINA