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Murder fascinates readers, and when a woman murders, that fascination is compounded. The paradox of mother, lover, or wife as killer fills us with shock. A woman's violence is unexpected, unacceptable. Yet killing an abusive man can make her a cultural heroine.In Double Jeopardy, Virginia Morris examines the complex roots of contemporary attitudes toward women who kill by providing a new perspective on violent women in Victorian literature. British novelists from Dickens to Hardy, in their characterizations, contradicted the traditional Western assumption that women criminals were ""unnatural

Murder in literature. --- Trials (Murder) in literature. --- Women murderers in literature. --- Detective and mystery stories, English --- Women murderers --- English fiction --- Female homicide offenders --- Murderesses --- Women homicide offenders --- Female offenders --- Murderers --- History and criticism. --- Public opinion --- History