By Suzanne Rintoul
Suzanne Rintoul identifies an enormous contradiction in Victorian representations of abuse: the simultaneous compulsion to show and to imprecise brutality in the direction of girls in intimate relationships. via case experiences and literary research, this booklet illustrates how intimate violence used to be either extraordinary and unspeakable within the Victorian interval.
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Surridge tells us that Oliver Twist ’s relationship to violence against women in journalism reflects implicit debates in these more respectable “middle-class” papers over how to appropriately intervene into domestic disputes, particularly when they occur among working-class couples. She identifies a sense of uncertainty in the press about what should be done to help poor, battered women, which transitioned, around 1830, to the assumption that intervention was called for in cases that involved passive women capable of embodying ideal middle-class femininity (25).
This claim reflects an awareness of the Illustrated Police News ’s tendency to commodify crime by publishing only the most shocking and lurid tales, but the embedded disparagement stops short of interventions into issues such as the exploitation of poor women and the complex relationship among sex and moral tenor. These concerns are, however, taken up in many fictional accounts of intimate violence, and, as the next chapter argues, in some ways constitute critical responses to sensational crime street literature’s ambivalent depictions of battered women.
James Catnach’s broadside describing the case sold over a million copies, establishing a new sales record for broadsides (Collison 37). Like many papers of its kind, Catnach’s Maria Marten paper places significant and explicit emphasis on the injured female body —“She lay bleeding in her gore,” “Her bleeding mangled body he threw under the red barn floor”—depicting the cross-class relationship as particularly dangerous and frightening. Another broadside about this case titled “A Copy of the Verses, on the Execution of W.