Ideal and Real Female Experience in Sherlock Holmes' StoriesMain MenuIntroductionRevised 12/13The Popularity of Detective Fiction in the Victorian EraThe Conventional View of Sherlock HolmesUnmarried Women & The Right to Property: "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" & The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"Married Women & The Right to Property: "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist"Domestic Violence: "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" & "The Hound of the Baskervilles"Victorian Female Reputation: "The Adventure of the Second Stain" & "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton"Sherlock Holmes and The New Woman: "A Scandal in Bohemia"BibliographyMargaret Murray747f62603c54d03d7a0d94f044ceeca676df8c3eSource Unknown.
The Idealized Vision of the Victorian Woman
1media/Screen Shot 2016-11-22 at 2.28.54 PM.png2016-11-22T12:57:10-05:00Margaret Murray747f62603c54d03d7a0d94f044ceeca676df8c3e645plain2016-11-22T13:25:19-05:00Margaret Murray747f62603c54d03d7a0d94f044ceeca676df8c3eThe ideal Victorian woman was a self-sacrificing wife and mother devoted to the interests of her husband and children focused entirely on the domestic sphere. It is best epitomized in Coventry Patmore’s narrative poem, “The Angel in the House.”