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

1. Introduction
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Part I. ‘A Door Open, A Door Shut’

2. On the Street
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3. Danger en Route
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4. Behind Closed Doors in Mona Caird’s The Wing of Azrael (1889)
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Part II. Fighting for Emancipation

5. Elizabeth Robins’s The Convert
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6. The Last Heroine Left?
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Part III. The Pre-War Female Gaze

7. Elizabeth Robins and the ‘White Slave Trade’ Panic
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8. Read My Lips
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9. Conclusion
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Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Gender Studies