Not Forgotten: Eliza Fenning, Frankenstien and Victorian Chivalry

Marshall, Tim (2001) Not Forgotten: Eliza Fenning, Frankenstien and Victorian Chivalry. Critical Survey, 13 (2). pp. 98-114.

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Abstract

On 18 July 1867, Charles Dickens’s weekly journal All the Year Round went back into history and told the story of a young woman who met her death on the gallows in London in 1815. ‘Old Stories Re-Told’, sub-titled ‘Eliza Fenning (The Danger of Condemning to Death on Circumstantial Evidence Alone)’, reminded its readers of a mis-carriage of justice. Speaking through one of his journalists, Walter Thornbury, Dickens performed an act of chivalry directed at the person and memory of a wronged woman. Eliza Fenning, a servant in a wealthy London household, worked for a Mr Turner, a law-stationer.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature and Creative Writing (former - to 2011) Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2010 13:56
Last Modified:	15 Dec 2022 01:46
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9181
DOI:	10.3167/001115701782483534

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