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

From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes
By:E. Godfrey
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230300316
eText ISBN:9781137284563
Edition:0
Copyright:2012
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.