Title: Femininity Crime and SelfDefence in Victorian Literature and Society
            
                Crime File Series
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.
Subjects: English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Femininity in literature, Self-defense for women, Crime in literature, English literature, History and criticism, English fiction, In literature, Women in literature, Self-defense for women in literature, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, English, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literature