Femininity Crime and SelfDefence in Victorian Literature and Society
            
                Crime File Series
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780230300316
Description: 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.