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Attitudes to Marriage The Subtext of Coverage of the Maybrick Case

By: Judith Knelman

This paper looks at press coverage in the U.S. and in England of the controversial trial and punishment of Florence Maybrick, with a view to discovering whether unease about the ongoing renegotiation of women's rights in marriage at the end of the nineteenth century hardened male attitudes against her.

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Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression

Symposium on the 19th Century Press,
the Civil War, and Free Expression