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Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society: From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes 2012th Edition
Author(s): E. Godfrey (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 26 Oct. 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 206 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230300316
- ISBN-13: 9780230300316
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“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
About the Author
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.
