Lucy Bland

This book looks at the representations of "modern women" in a number of trials in England between 1918 and 1924: inquests related to drug deaths, drug dealing convictions, a libel trial, two trials with women in the dock for the deaths of their husbands, a divorce case. Alongside information from trial transcripts, the discussion is focused on what the newspapers, in particularly the popular papers, said about the women, their looks, and the matters discussed in the court that the papers didn't feel they could print. Fascinating all along.… (mehr)