Title: Bleak houses
First published: 2006
Description: 'Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction' traces novelists' engagement with the wife-assault debates in the public press between 1828 and the turn of the century.
Subjects: English fiction, History and criticism, Marriage in literature, English Domestic fiction, Family violence in literature, Abused women in literature, Child abuse in literature, Violence in literature, Domestic fiction, history and criticism, English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century
LC classification: PR