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  1. Double jeopardy
    women who kill in Victorian fiction
    Published: 1990
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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  2. Double jeopardy
    women who kill in Victorian fiction
    Published: ©1990
    Publisher:  University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813163765; 0813163765; 0813153581; 9780813153582
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist; Geschichte; English fiction; Women murderers; Detective and mystery stories, English; Women murderers in literature; Trials (Murder) in literature; Murder in literature; Englisch; Roman; Kriminalliteratur; Mörderin; Mörderin <Motiv>
    Scope: 193 pages
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    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

    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

  3. Double jeopardy
    women who kill in Victorian fiction
    Published: 1990
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.

    Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld
    WG177 M877
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    Universitätsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen
    DVUW1041
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0813117518
    Subjects: Mörderin; Mörderin <Motiv>; Englisch; Roman; Kriminalliteratur
    Scope: 182 S., 1 Ill.
  4. Double jeopardy
    women who kill in Victorian fiction
    Published: 1990
    Publisher:  University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.

    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    92 A 6017
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    Bibliotheks-und Informationssystem der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (BIS)
    ang 581.2 BU 8902
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0813117518
    Subjects: Englisch; Fiktion; Mord <Motiv>; Englisch; Frau; Mörder
    Other subjects: Array; Array; Array; Array; Array; Array
    Scope: 182 p, ill, 23 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-173) and index

  5. Double jeopardy
    women who kill in Victorian fiction
    Published: 1990
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of Kentucky, Lexington

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
    84.716.04
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0813117518
    Subjects: Englisch; Mörderin <Motiv>; Roman; Mörderin; Kriminalliteratur
    Scope: 182 S., Ill.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. [167] - 173

  6. Double jeopardy
    women who kill in Victorian fiction
    Published: 1990
    Publisher:  University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    1 A 147289
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    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
    GE 91/3640
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    92 A 6017
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    92 A 4680
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    Bibliotheks-und Informationssystem der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (BIS)
    ang 581.2 BU 8902
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0813117518
    Subjects: Englisch; Fiktion; Mord <Motiv>; Englisch; Frau; Mörder
    Other subjects: Array; Array; Array; Array; Array; Array
    Scope: 182 S., Ill.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-173) and index

  7. Double jeopardy
    women who kill in Victorian fiction
    Published: 1990
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.

    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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