Double Jeopardy: Women Who Kill in Victorian Fiction by Virginia B. Morris

Double Jeopardy: Women Who Kill in Victorian Fiction

Virginia B. Morris

192 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime informative slow-paced
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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 cul...

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