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a
Acton, William, 15-17, 19 ;
and Grand, 20 ;
and proper feminine, 15-17
affectivity, 25, 27, 164-7 ;
containment, 164 ;
Egerton, 165, 173-4 ;
Grand on, 175 ;
lack, 165 ;
women, victim of, 178
angel in the house, 12, 16 ;
in Lady Audley’s Secret, 92
Armstrong, Nancy, 23
Aurora Floyd, 98-9 ;
criminality, 87 ;
discourse on women, 88 ;
girl of the period, 88, 112 ;
improper feminine, 88 ;
marriage, 108-9 ;
plot, 86-7 ;
sales, 7 ;
secrets, 86 ;
spectacle, 99-100, 105 ;
stereotypes, 105-6 ;
transgressive past, 86-8, 102, 112-13
Austin, Alfred, 24 ;
and proper feminine, 25, 207-8 ;
women and art, 9

b
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 132, 134
Baym, Nina, 203
Besant, Walter, 39-40
Beth Book, The, 194 ;
feminism, 180 ;
and ‘The Lady of Shalott’, 185-6 ;
mother of Beth, 180 ;
proper feminine, 185-6 ;
secret room, 183-6 ;
spiritualising, 186 ;
woman artist, 178-80, 183-6
Bethell, Sir Richard, 59
Bevington, Merle, 69
Blackstone, William, 57-8
Bloom, Harold, 203
body: and medical discourse, 95 ;
and sensation fiction, 35, 79 ;
see also: spectacle;
woman
Boumelha, Penny, 41, 158
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 83-113, 201 ;
address, 32, 108 ;
amateur, 202 ;
concealed pasts, 84 ;
defies rules, 33 ;
The Doctor’s Wife, 112 ;
and domestic melodrama, 75 ;
and domestic novel, 151 ;
female body, 35 ;
feminine spectacle, 91-3, 97-102 ;
femininity, 91-102 ;
feminisation of heroine, 85 ;
gender boundaries, 102-3 ;
gender and class, 107 ;
hair, 98 ;
Henry Dunbar, 85 ;
on heroines, 82 ;
improper feminine, 84, 88, 92-3, 107 ;
interest in, 198 ;
interiority, 91-2, 101 ;
John Marchmont’s Legacy, 95-7 ;
madness in, 89-90, 93-6 ;
marriage, 108-13 ;
masculinity in, 102-4, 106-7 ;
mimicry of masculine form, 206 ;
mother, lack of, 86-7 ;
and New Woman writing, 143, 151 ;
plots, 85, 110 ;
points of view, 80-1 ;
private female spaces, 91-2, 101 ;
proper feminine, 84, 95-6 ;
Run to Earth, 85 ;
secrets, 83-4, 86-7, 89, 91-2, 107, 110, 111 ;
on sensation fiction, 53 ;
success, 6-7 ;
suspicion, 111 ;
techniques, 97, 108, 111-12,

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Publication Information: Book Title: The "Improper" Feminine: The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing. Contributors: Lyn Pykett - author. Publisher: Routledge. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1992. Page Number: 225.
    
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