num_pages: 330
description: The image of Victorian womanhood -- that of respectable, middle-class mother and wife -- will be shattered far all who read Mary Hartman's fascinating and often shocking account of the lives of thirteen French and English women accused of murder. Her carefully researched and vividly dramatic investigation of why these thirteen women took such direct and desperate action gives a unique view of life behind the closed curtains of Victorian drawingroom society.
language: English
title: Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes
titlecomplete: Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes
genres: Historical, France, British Literature, Nonfiction, Victorian, Womens, 19th Century, Crime, History, True Crime
ratings_count: 303
publisher: Robson Book Ltd