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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.

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List of Figures Acknowledgments A Note on the Text Abbreviations Introduction PART I: ´A DOOR OPEN, A DOOR SHUT´ On the Street Danger en Route Behind Closed Doors: Bogey-Husbands in Disguise: Mona Caird´s The Wing of Azrael (1889) PART II: FIGHTING FOR EMANCIPATION Elizabeth Robins´ The Convert The Last Heroine Left? PART III: THE PRE-WAR FEMALE GAZE ´Where Are You Going To, My Pretty Maid?´: Elizabeth Robins on White Slavery Read My Lips Bibliography Index

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"Femininity, Crime and Self-Defense is a superb addition to New Woman studies and a potential rich resource for scholars in late-Victorian and Edwardian literary scholarship." - Lena W†nggren, University of Edinburgh, UK

"Opening up new areas for research in the fields of women´s history, but also detective fiction and urban studies, this book´s major contribution to Victorian and Edwardian studies is in unsettling the reader´s perceptions, insisting that we look again at what we think we already know." - Carolyn Oulton, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

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EMELYNE GODFREY graduated with a Ph.D. in English from Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. A freelance writer and researcher, she writes academic articles, dictionary and encyclopaedia entries and poetry, and gives lectures to societies. She is a regular contributor to History Today and is the Publicity Officer for the H.G. Wells Society.

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