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- Title
Miserable Kate: Femininity, Space and Literary Conventions in Representations of a Late‐Victorian Murder.
- Authors
Michael‐Berger, Lee
- Abstract
In 1898, Kate Marshall, a whip maker from London’s East End, was accused of murdering her sister. This article examines court and press representations of the case and exposes the constructions of criminal femininity. It demonstrates the importance of space in the reporting of the murder and shows how different interpretations of the urban locus drew upon, and shaped, discourses on femininity and criminality. Whereas many studies stress the dominance of the melodramatic mode in representations of murderesses during the nineteenth century, I argue here that the representation of criminal femininity was contingent on the employment of tragic components.
- Subjects
SPITALFIELDS (London, England); WOMEN criminals; VICTORIAN Period, Great Britain, 1837-1901; HISTORY of London (England), 1800-1950; MURDER; HOMICIDE; SISTERS; FEMININITY; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Gender & History, 2020, Vol 32, Issue 1, p149
- ISSN
0953-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0424.12448