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Wayward Women: Female Offenders in Victorian England
Lucy E. Williams
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Description for Wayward Women: Female Offenders in Victorian England
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We most often think of the Victorian female offender in her most archetypal and stereotypical roles; the polite lady shoplifter, stowing all manner of valuables beneath her voluminous crinolines, the tragic street waif of Dickensian fiction or the vicious femme fatale who wreaked her terrible revenge with copious poison. Yet the stories in popular novels and the 'Penny Dreadfuls' of the day have passed down to us only half the story of these women and their crimes. From the everyday street scuffles and pocket pickings of crowded slums, to the sensational trials that dominated national headlines; the women of Victorian ... Read more
We most often think of the Victorian female offender in her most archetypal and stereotypical roles; the polite lady shoplifter, stowing all manner of valuables beneath her voluminous crinolines, the tragic street waif of Dickensian fiction or the vicious femme fatale who wreaked her terrible revenge with copious poison. Yet the stories in popular novels and the 'Penny Dreadfuls' of the day have passed down to us only half the story of these women and their crimes. From the everyday street scuffles and pocket pickings of crowded slums, to the sensational trials that dominated national headlines; the women of Victorian ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Barnsley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473844872
SKU
V9781473844872
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About Lucy E. Williams
Lucy Williams is a writer and historian living in Wales. She has a PhD from the University of Liverpool and specialises in Crime History, Women's History, and the Social History of the nineteenth century. She has spent over five years researching and writing about female deviance in an academic context, and is now part of an exciting project tracing the ... Read more
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