Questions of Chic
Michael Mason, 19 August 1993
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London
by Judith Walkowitz.
Virago, 353 pp., £16.99, November 1992,1 85381 517 9 Show More
by Judith Walkowitz.
Virago, 353 pp., £16.99, November 1992,
Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in 19th-century Married Life
by James Hammerton.
Routledge, 236 pp., £37.50, November 1992,0 415 03622 4 Show More
by James Hammerton.
Routledge, 236 pp., £37.50, November 1992,
Victorian Scandals: Representations of Gender and Class
edited by Kristine Ottersen Garrigan.
Ohio, 337 pp., $34.99, August 1992,0 8214 1019 9 Show More
edited by Kristine Ottersen Garrigan.
Ohio, 337 pp., $34.99, August 1992,
“... and its enormities dominate the field. But there are exceptions, one of them being James Hammerton’s Cruelty and Companionship. Hammerton’s realities are legal records concerning the breakdown of Victorian marriages, from the Divorce Court and magistrates’ hearings; his images are the period’s ... ”
