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"I graduated from college in 1979, and this is one of the few textbooks I remember vividly all these years later. It is a fascinating portrait of women who felt they had no option but to murder their oppressors - husbands, fathers, etc. It was part of a Victorian literature course taught at Douglass College (Rutgers University) by the great Elaine Showalter."