Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction by Lisa Surridge

Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction

Lisa Surridge

272 pages 2005

2 editions

nonfiction feminism informative medium-paced
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The 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 t...

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