Violent women and sensation fiction : crime, medicine and Victorian popular culture / Andrew Mangham.

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

x, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Explosive materials : legal, medical, and journalistic profiles of the violent woman -- 'The terrible chemistry of nature' : the road murder and popular fiction -- 'Frail erections' : exploiting violent women in the work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- 'Nest-building apes' : female follies and bourgeois culture in the novels of Mrs. Henry Wood -- Hidden shadows : dangerous women and obscure diseases in the novels of Wilkie Collins.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-241) and index.