Lisa Surridge


Lisa Surridge is associate professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. She is coeditor of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Aurora Floyd and has published on Victorian fiction in many journals, including Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Review, Dickens Studies Annual, Victorian Newsletter, and Victorians Institute Journal.


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Cover of Bleak Houses

Bleak Houses

Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction

The Offenses Against the Person Act of 1828 opened magistrates' courts to abused working-class wives. Newspapers in turn reported on these proceedings, and in this way the Victorian scrutiny of domestic conduct began.…

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