Bleak Houses

Author : Lisa Surridge

Paperback

Published : Tuesday 15 November 2005

ISBN : 9780821416433

Price : €26.90

Description

The Offenses Against the Person Act of 1828 opened magistrates courts to abused working-class wives. Newspapers in turn reported on these proceedings, and in this way the Victorian scrutiny of domestic conduct began. But how did popular fiction treat "private" family violence?

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