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Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction
Lisa Surridge
The Offenses Against the Person Act of 1828 opened magistrates’ courts to abused working-class wives. Newspapers in turn reported on these proceedings, and in this way the Victorian scrutiny of domestic conduct began. But how did popular fiction treat “private” family violence?
272 pages, illustrated
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 15, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9780821416426 |
| Publishers | Ohio University Press |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 20 mm · 549 g |
| Language | English |
