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List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements x
Introduction 1
Explosive Materials: Legal, Medical, and Journalistic Profiles of the Violent Woman 7
The body in the kitchen 7
Young women and adolescents: 'The mad fury of that lovely being' 9
Maternal maniacs 23
Morbid influences 29
Female old age: Sick fancies 39
'The Terrible Chemistry of Nature': The Road Murder and Popular Fiction 49
'The fussy activity about the nightdress of a school girl' 49
Popular fictional representations 63
'A tragedy of blood and tears': Aurora Floyd 64
'Smooth as polished crystal': St. Martin's Eve 71
'Detective fever': The Moonstone 79
'Frail Erections': Exploiting Violent Women in the Work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon 87
Poking the embers: The hysterical violence of young women 87
Unmotherly glances and sickly sentimentality: Dangerous maternities 103
Uncultivated waste: Post-menopausal women 116
'Nest-Building Apes': Female Follies and Bourgeois Culture in the Novels of Mrs Henry Wood 126
A man of two wives/a man of two lives: Divided masculinity and domestic ideology in East Lynne(1862) 129
'Looking back': The mother's influence in Danesbury House (1860) and Mrs Halliburton's Troubles (1862) 137
'The matrimonial lottery': Choosing a good wife in Lady Adelaide's Oath (1867) 143
'Evil heritages': Superstition and morbid heredity in The Shadow of Ashlydyat (1864) 149
A moth in the upturned tumbler: The control and display of passion in Verner's Pride (1863) 158
Hidden Shadows: Dangerous Women and Obscure Diseases in the Novels of Wilkie Collins 169
'What could I do?': The Woman in White (1860) 172
'In a glass darkly': No Name (1862) 182
'The shadow of a woman': Armadale (1866) 196
Conclusion 209
Notes 212
Bibliography 233
Index 242
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