Ideal and Real Female Experience in Sherlock Holmes' StoriesMain MenuIntroductionRevised 12/13The Popularity of Detective Fiction in the Victorian EraThe Conventional View of Sherlock HolmesThe Idealized View of the Victorian WomanUnmarried 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.