Perceptions of the murderess in London and Paris, 1674-1789

This project is a comparative study of print about women accused of murder in eighteenth-century London and Paris. While gender played an important role in determining how such women were perceived, in that female killers stimulated forms of social introspection that male murderers did not, this the...

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Main Author: Jenkin, Anna C.
Other Authors: Shoemaker, Robert ; McCallam, David
Published: University of Sheffield 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.687215