To critic Andrew ManghamThe White Maniac examplifies a Victorian fascination with the potential for violence and irrationality in female adolescents, and detection as sustain[ing] a number of social hierarchies through the actual and figurative...
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Ellen Wood
The novel's protagonist, Lady Isabel Vane, is left destitute on her father's death and marries the steadfast but dull lawyer Archibald Carlyle without truly loving him. With a home life made miserable by her prim...
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Ellen Wood
In a subplot Adeline de Castella breaks with her beloved Frederick St John when her Catholic
father forbids her to marry him. The emotion of their parting causes her to break a blood vessel, after...
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Mary Fortune
The Australian Journal carried MF
's The White Maniac: A Doctor's Tale, a far more sensational and macabre short story than My Lady Jane.
In his article on the story, Andrew Mangham
states...
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Mangham, Andrew. “Life after Death: Apoplexy, Medical Ethics and the Female Undead”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
15
, No. 3, pp. 282-99.
Mangham, Andrew. “The Detective Fiction of Female Adolescent Violence”. Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol.