This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually wide-ranging number of subjects from hatpin crimes to the development of martial arts for women.
| ISBN: | 9780230300316 |
| Publication date: | 26th October 2012 |
| Author: | Emelyne Godfrey |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | Crime Files |
| Genres: |
Fiction Gender studies, gender groups Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literature: history and criticism |