Contagious Diseases Acts (CD Acts), 3, 25–26, 63, 79

conventional attitudes

conventionalists, 184, 186

domestic, 36, 72, 113

moral convention, 184

social boundaries, 1, 5, 11, 14, 28, 35, 76, 88, 95, 103–104, 135–136, 142, 168, 172, 186, 188, 195

crime, 5, 12, 71–75, 87–89, 93, 95, 103, 127–128, 136–138, 144–146, 157, 162, 164, 187, 208–209

detective, 9–10, 12, 16, 22, 33–36, 64, 94, 101–102, 110, 127–128, 147

Dickens, Charles, xviii, 2, 8–9, 11, 13–14, 30, 104–105, 146

Bleak House,, 8, 61, 102

David Copperfield,, 47–64

Emily, 13, 48–61, 71

Great Expectations,, 2, 61

Lady Dedlock, 8, 61, 102–103

Rosa Dartle, 2, 14, 47–64

Steerforth, 11, 48, 51–61

divorce, 3, 14, 18, 70–71, 77, 79, 81, 103, 194

domestic life, 72

domestic woman, xv, 1, 31–32, 58, 64, 77, 81, 83, 86, 106, 141, 143, 149, 166, 175, 190, 208–209

double standard, 18–19, 26, 56, 62, 68, 76, 86, 102, 110, 124, 148, 182–184, 186, 195, 200

Eliot, George, 9

fallen woman, xv, 1, 5, 11, 13, 19, 22–23, 26, 30–32, 45–46, 48–50

fallen woman (continued), 54, 58, 60–61, 64–65, 102, 118, 127, 135, 152, 164, 169–172, 177–178, 180–183, 185, 189–190

family

aristocratic, 7, 10, 69

Armadale,, 144–145, 148, 151, 153, 160, 165

bourgeois, 3–4, 10, 68–69, 74, 76, 127

David Copperfield,, 30, 48, 50, 54

ideology, 13–14, 83–84, 91, 134, 138, 164, 194–196, 200, 208

Tess,, 171, 178–179

fatal woman, 5–6, 8, 14–16, 87, 91, 140, 151, 158, 170

feminism, 77, 132

radical feminists, 14, 193

femme fatale

agency, 19, 24, 35, 67, 103, 106, 133, 141

aristocratic families, 10, 101, 127, 165

art, 31, 64, 87, 109, 119, 122, 128, 198, 209

artist, 17–18, 23, 25, 31, 109, 146, 198–199

autonomy, 6, 64, 164, 209

Becky Sharp, xiv, 2–3, 8, 10, 50, 59–60, 69–70, 106, 132, 141–142, 153–154, 189, 192, 209

danger, 3, 6, 8, 21, 32, 35–37, 50, 104, 122, 127, 142, 146, 170, 176, 208

dangerous woman, xiv–xv, 1–2, 5–9, 12, 16–17, 21, 41–42, 60, 62, 79, 83, 94, 105–106