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Victorian Murderesses
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Author : Mary S. Hartman
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2014-06-18
Victorian Murderesses written by Mary S. Hartman and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-18 with History categories.
Riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen famous cases, offering illuminating details of the accused women's backgrounds, deeds, and trials. "Vividly written, meticulously researched." — Choice.
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Author : Mary S. Hartman
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2014-05-05
Victorian Murderesses written by Mary S. Hartman and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-05 with History categories.
Riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen famous cases, offering illuminating details of the accused women's backgrounds, deeds, and trials. "Vividly written, meticulously researched." — Choice.
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Author : Mary S. Hartman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978-02
Victorian Murderesses written by Mary S. Hartman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978-02 with Female offenders categories.
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Author : Naz Bulamur
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2016-02-08
Victorian Murderesses written by Naz Bulamur and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Victorian Murderesses investigates the politics of female violence in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891), George Eliot’s Adam Bede (1859), Mary Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862), and Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire (1897). The controversial figure of the murderess in these four novels challenges the assumption that women are essentially nurturing and passive and that violence and aggression are exclusively male traits. By focusing on the representations of murder committed by women, this book demonstrates how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian domestic ideology, as female criminals were often locked up in asylums and publicly executed without substantial evidence. While paying close attention to the social, economic, judicial, and political dynamics of Victorian England, this interdisciplinary study also tackles the question of female agency, as the novels simultaneously portray women as perpetrators of murder and excuse their socially unacceptable traits of anger and violence by invoking heredity and madness. Although the four novels tend to undercut female power and attribute violence to adulterous women, they are revolutionary enough to deploy female characters who rebel against male sovereignty and their domestic roles by stabbing their rapists and even killing their newborns. Victorian studies on gender and violence focus primarily on female victims of sexual harassment, and real and fictional male killers like Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Victorian Murderesses contributes to the field by investigating how literary representations of female violence counter the idealisation of women as angelic housewives.
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Author : Debbie Blake
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2022-12-02
Victorian Murderesses written by Debbie Blake and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-02 with True Crime categories.
The Victorian belief that women were the ‘weaker sex’ who were expected to devote themselves entirely to family life, made it almost inconceivable that they could ever be capable of committing murder. What drove a woman to murder her husband, lover or even her own child? Were they tragic, mad or just plain evil? Using various sources including court records, newspaper accounts and letters, this book explores some of the most notorious murder cases committed by seven women in nineteenth century Britain and America. It delves into each of the women’s lives, the circumstances that led to their crimes, their committal and trial and the various reasons why they resorted to murder: the fear of destitution led Mary Ann Brough to murder her own children; desperation to keep her job drove Sarah Drake to her crime. Money was the motive in the case of Mary Ann Cotton, who is believed to have poisoned as many as twenty-one people. Kate Bender lured her unsuspecting victims to their death in ‘The Slaughter Pen’ before stripping them of their valuables; Kate Webster’s temper got the better of her when she brutally murdered and decapitated her employer; nurse Jane Toppan admitted she derived sexual pleasure from watching her victims die slowly and Lizzie Borden was suspected of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe, so that she could live on the affluent area known as ‘the hill’ in Fall River, Massachusetts.
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Author : Lacey Belinda Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-05-30
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Author : Debbie Blake
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2022-12-02
Victorian Murderesses written by Debbie Blake and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-02 with True Crime categories.
The Victorian belief that women were the ‘weaker sex’ who were expected to devote themselves entirely to family life, made it almost inconceivable that they could ever be capable of committing murder. What drove a woman to murder her husband, lover or even her own child? Were they tragic, mad or just plain evil? Using various sources including court records, newspaper accounts and letters, this book explores some of the most notorious murder cases committed by seven women in nineteenth century Britain and America. It delves into each of the women’s lives, the circumstances that led to their crimes, their committal and trial and the various reasons why they resorted to murder: the fear of destitution led Mary Ann Brough to murder her own children; desperation to keep her job drove Sarah Drake to her crime. Money was the motive in the case of Mary Ann Cotton, who is believed to have poisoned as many as twenty-one people. Kate Bender lured her unsuspecting victims to their death in ‘The Slaughter Pen’ before stripping them of their valuables; Kate Webster’s temper got the better of her when she brutally murdered and decapitated her employer; nurse Jane Toppan admitted she derived sexual pleasure from watching her victims die slowly and Lizzie Borden was suspected of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe, so that she could live on the affluent area known as ‘the hill’ in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Moulding The Female Body In Victorian Fairy Tales And Sensation Novels
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Author : Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Moulding The Female Body In Victorian Fairy Tales And Sensation Novels written by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in narratives that depart from mainstream realism, from fairy tales by George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Juliana Horatia Ewing, and Jean Ingelow, to sensation novels by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and Charles Dickens. Feminine representation, Talairach-Vielmas argues, is actually presented in a hyper-realistic way in such anti-realistic genres as children's literature and sensation fiction. In fact, it is precisely the clash between fantasy and reality that enables the narratives to interrogate the real and re-create a new type of realism that exposes the normative constraints imposed to contain the female body. In her exploration of the female body and its representations, Talairach-Vielmas examines how Victorian fantasies and sensation novels deconstruct and reconstruct femininity; she focuses in particular on the links between the female characters and consumerism, and shows how these serve to illuminate the tensions underlying the representation of the Victorian ideal.
Murderesses In Victorian Britain
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Author : Christina Croft
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-08-29
Murderesses In Victorian Britain written by Christina Croft and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-29 with categories.
Which Victorian murderess inspired Thomas Hardy's 'Tess of the D'Urbevilles'? Who lived to regret her 'deathbed' confession? Was Amelia Dyer mad or wicked? Why did the judiciary look compassionately on women who committed infanticide? Among over eighty women whose stories appear in this book, some were tragic; some were evil; some were mad; and several were undoubtedly innocent of the murders for which they were hanged. While politicians argued about the rights and wrongs of capital punishment, some of these women walked stoically to the gallows; some fainted or screamed in terror at the sight of the noose; and others walked free from the courtroom having 'got away with murder.'
Misjudged Murderesses
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Author : Stephen Jakobi
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2019-11-19
Misjudged Murderesses written by Stephen Jakobi and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-19 with True Crime categories.
Lacing tea with poison and slipping arsenic in to soup, this is what comes to mind we talk of murderesses of the Victorian age. Fuelled by a rumour-driven press and cases of notorious killers like Marry Ann Cotton, the 'Angel of Death', or Christiana Edmunds, the 'Chocolate Cream Killer', death by poisoning was a great anxiety of Victorian Britain. But what about those women who were wrongly convicted? What about the suspects who fell victim of a biased jury and unrelenting press? In _Misjudged Murderesses_, Stephen Jakobi takes a forensic approach to examine the trials of six women falsely sentenced for crimes they didn't commit. With the aid of primary sources, and in two cases the ready assistance of descendants and local journalists, the validity of their convictions is questioned. Highlighting common factors in poisoning cases that led to ostensible miscarriages of justice, Jakobi shines a light on a flawed and inconsistent legal system.