Good Girls Die; Bad Girls Don't: The Uses of the Dying Virgin in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Authors

  • Susan K. Martin

Keywords:

literature, Australian literature, women's writing, Maude Jeanne Franc, Minnie's Mission

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2020-06-11

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Martin, S. K. (2020). Good Girls Die; Bad Girls Don’t: The Uses of the Dying Virgin in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 1(1), 11-22. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/AJVS/article/view/13285