TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morris,Virginia B.
TI  - Double jeopardy: women who kill in Victorian fiction 
SN  - 9780813163765
AV  - PR878 .D683 1990
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Lexington, Ky.
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women murderers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - History
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, English
KW  - Women murderers in literature
KW  - Trials (Murder) in literature
KW  - Murder in literature
KW  - Detective
KW  - and
KW  - mystery
KW  - stories
KW  - English
KW  - criticism
KW  - fiction
KW  - 19th
KW  - century
KW  - Murder
KW  - in
KW  - literature
KW  - Trials
KW  - (Murder)
KW  - Women
KW  - murderers
KW  - Public
KW  - opinion
KW  - Great
KW  - Britain
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: Twice Guilty: The Double Jeopardy of Women Who Kill --; The Worst of Women: Sisters in Crime --; Women and Victorian Law: A Curious Chivalry --; Charles Dickens: The Fiercest Impulses --; George Eliot: My Heart Said, "Die!" --; Mary Elizabeth Braddon: The Most Despicable of Her Sex --; Wilkie Collins: No Deliverance but in Death --; Thomas Hardy: A Desperate Remedy --; Arthur Conan Doyle: Vengeance Is Hers; 2; b
N2  - Murder fascinates readers, and when a woman murders, that fascination is compounded. The paradox of mother, lover, or wife as killer fills us with shock. A woman's violence is unexpected, unacceptable. Yet killing an abusive man can make her a cultural heroine. In Double Jeopardy, Virginia Morris examines the complex roots of contemporary attitudes toward women who kill by providing a new perspective on violent women in Victorian literature. British novelists from Dickens to Hardy, in their characterizations, contradicted the traditional Western assumption that women criminals were ""unnatural
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