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?...
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