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Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society

Part of the Crime Files Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137284563

ISBN: 978-1-349-33610-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 4, 2015

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Introduction

Godfrey, Emelyne

Pages: 1 –11

[When the young actress, Elizabeth Robins, came to London in late 1888, her father was concerned for her safety during her ‘wanderings about the modern Babylon’ and considered that in London the ‘hours and places of danger’ were more numerous ‘than in New York’.1 Over a hundred years later, my...
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On the Street

Godfrey, Emelyne

Pages: 15 –25

[En route from Green Park tube station to the London Library, one strolls past the Ritz Hotel, caviar shops, art galleries and the sumptuous little boutiques of the Burlington Arcade. It is a pleasant afternoon walk. Ann Veronica wanders around this area, with her dark hair loosened and her...
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Danger en Route

Godfrey, Emelyne

Pages: 26 –32

[By the 1890s, the safety bicycle had become the symbol of female emancipation, allowing a woman to direct her own course of travel unchaperoned. As a consequence, if the New Man desired to attract her attention, he had to exert himself to keep up. Set in 1895, Doyle’s ‘The Adventure of the...
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Behind Closed Doors in Mona Caird’s The Wing of Azrael (1889)

Godfrey, Emelyne

Pages: 33 –63

[A portrayal of the emotional consequences of marrying the enemy, Azrael is a bleak yet bracing novel. Particularly apt at the aesthetisization of peril, Caird gives her female readers an education in spotting danger. She routs out the bogeyman in the wedding trousseau and spares no emotional...
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Elizabeth Robins’s The Convert

Godfrey, Emelyne

Pages: 67 –85

[‘There’s nothing that shakes my nerves like seeing a woman struggling and kicking in a policeman’s arms’, shudders Lord Borrodaile (Convert, p. 67). Robins was fascinated and also troubled by women’s supposed vulnerability and the restrictions this placed on their movements. Convert famously...
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The Last Heroine Left?

Godfrey, Emelyne

Pages: 86 –106

[Emmeline Pankhurst understood the value of sports for politics. After she was elected to the School Board for the City of Manchester in 1900, she promoted physical education for children in Board Schools, which she hoped would result in a fitter British nation. The suffrage campaign helped...
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Elizabeth Robins and the ‘White Slave Trade’ Panic

Godfrey, Emelyne

Pages: 109 –131

[It’s night in the city. Along a dimly lit side road waits a cab, its open door persuades the passerby to enter while its red brake lights glare threateningly at us. The following words are sucked into the open door: Know What You’re Getting Into? This image, along with other more shocking...
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Read My Lips

Godfrey, Emelyne

Pages: 132 –155

[Richard Marsh (1857–1915) appears to have relished inventing gruesome ways to torture and murder his characters. A popular crime writer who also found himself on the wrong side of the law, Marsh is today largely known for his bestselling detective horror novel, The Beetle: A Mystery (1897),...
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Conclusion

Godfrey, Emelyne

Pages: 156 –157

[When Buffy is stalked by Angel, the boyfriend-vampire who turns bad, she discusses with her friends how to fight him. The observant viewer will notice that warnings on posters in the background underline the message of certain scenes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, sometimes to humorous effect,...

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