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

" Femininity, Crime and Self-Defense is a superb addition to New Woman studies and a potential rich resource for scholars in late-Victorian and Edwardian literary scholarship. " - Lena Wånggren, University of Edinburgh, UK

" Opening up new areas for research in the fields of women' s history, but also detective fiction and urban studies, this book' s major contribution to Victorian and Edwardian studies is in unsettling the reader' s perceptions, insisting that we look again at what we think we already know. " - Carolyn Oulton, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK