Ideal and Real Female Experience in Sherlock Holmes' Stories
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Introduction
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The Popularity of Detective Fiction in the Victorian Era
The Conventional View of Sherlock Holmes
The Idealized View of the Victorian Woman
Unmarried 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"
Bibliography
Margaret Murray
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