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List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations;Introduction; 1. The subject of violence: Mary Lamb, femme fatale; 2.Violence against difference: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson and women'sstrength; 3. 'The aristocracy of genius': Mary Robinson and Marie Antoinette;4. Unnatural, unsexed, undead: Charlotte Dacre's gothic bodies; 5. 'In seraphstrains, unpitying, to destroy': Anne Bannerman's femmes fatales; 6. 'Lifehas one vast stern likeness in its gloom': Letitia Landon's philosophy ofdecomposition; Bibliography; Index.