Brenda Ayres is retired from full-time residential teaching but currently teaches nineteenth-century English literature and professional writing online for several universities.Sarah E. Maier is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Let’s Talk ScandalBrenda AyresPart 1: Scandalous Victoriana Chapter 1: The Afterlives of Victorian ScandalsLesley A. HallChapter 2: “Her only fear is convention”:The Bohemian Girl in Victorian Art and LifeAnne Anderson, Bohemians in Paris, Anglo-BohemiaChapter 3: Reading Between the Lines:“Town Jottings” from the Savage Club in the Brighton Guardian, 1877Catherine LaytonChapter 4: Scandalous Stupor:Chloroform and Robbery in Victorian PeriodicalsAshlee SimonChapter 5: Suicide as Scandal:Representations from Victorian Life and ArtCatherine J. Golden Chapter 6: Scandalous Women Wearing Cloaks of ReligionBrenda AyresChapter 7: The Darwin ScandalTony SchwabPart 2: Scandalous PartiesChapter 8: Victorian Atheists: Cultivating Scandal as a Way of LifeDavid NashChapter 9: Scandals in a Religious Sect: AgapemoneCatherine LaytonChapter 10: “A Scandalous and Painful Case”: Marriage, Libel, and the Church, 1873–1895Ginger FrostChapter 11: The Cause Célèbre of the Year, If Not the Decade:May, Dowager Duchess of SutherlandCatherine LaytonChapter 12: Regina v. Dunn:Lady Angela Burdett-Coutts and the Irish AnnoyanceDaniel StuartChapter 13: A Poor Gamble:The Disastrous Elopement of the “Pocket Venus” (Lady Florence Paget)Catherine LaytonChapter 14: A “Voice from the Grave”:Lady Flora Hastings, Queen Victoria, and the Scandal of PregnancySuzanne DalyChapter 15: Poisonous Words:Criminal Rhetoric and the Trials of Mary Ann Cotton and Florence MaybrickKatherine Anne Gilbert and Cheryl Blake PriceChapter 16: “I am a woman all alone”: The Case of Mrs. ManningCatherine LaytonChapter 17: Lady Lincoln and the Lesser Life of the 1850 Lincoln DivorceGail SavageChapter 18: Women in the Military and Their Heraldry in the PressClaire Cookson-HillsChapter 19: Virtue v. Heroism:Kate Dickinson’s Case Against Colonel Valentine BakerCatherine LaytonChapter 20: Monstrous Martyrdom:The Trials of Oscar WildeTom Ue and Aaron EamesPart 3: Scandalous Reading and Delightfully Despicable NovelsChapter 21: Edith Cooper’s Sin:Mapping the Wilful Bodies of Michael FieldSharon BickleChapter 22: “Let us adore spilled blood”:Swinburne and the Scandal of Poems and BalladsMichael CraskeChapter 23: Edith J. Simcox and the Scandal of Queer FormKellie HolzerChapter 24: Scandalous Exogamy in Anthony Trollope’s The Prime MinisterLauren CameronChapter 25: Ouida: Her Scandalous Life and Scandalous NovelsCatherine LaytonChapter 26: The Scandalous Deconstruction of Victorian Morals in Anna Lombard:What Made Victoria(ns) Cross?Purna BanerjeeChapter 27: Daddy’s Little Angel in the House:The Managing Daughter and the Incest TabooEmily DotsonChapter 28: The Nineteenth-Century Sex Worker: Avoiding Surveillance, Stereotypes, and Scandal Hollie Geary-JonesChapter 29: Sexy Dirt: Homosexual Scandal and Late-Victorian Social ReformS. Brooke CameronChapter 30: A Confusion of Discourses: Scandal and Degeneracy at the Fin de SiècleSarah E. MaierIndex

Brenda Ayres is retired from full-time residential teaching but currently teaches nineteenth-century English literature and professional writing online for several universities.Sarah E. Maier is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Let’s Talk ScandalBrenda AyresPart 1: Scandalous Victoriana Chapter 1: The Afterlives of Victorian ScandalsLesley A. HallChapter 2: “Her only fear is convention”:The Bohemian Girl in Victorian Art and LifeAnne Anderson, Bohemians in Paris, Anglo-BohemiaChapter 3: Reading Between the Lines:“Town Jottings” from the Savage Club in the Brighton Guardian, 1877Catherine LaytonChapter 4: Scandalous Stupor:Chloroform and Robbery in Victorian PeriodicalsAshlee SimonChapter 5: Suicide as Scandal:Representations from Victorian Life and ArtCatherine J. Golden Chapter 6: Scandalous Women Wearing Cloaks of ReligionBrenda AyresChapter 7: The Darwin ScandalTony SchwabPart 2: Scandalous PartiesChapter 8: Victorian Atheists: Cultivating Scandal as a Way of LifeDavid NashChapter 9: Scandals in a Religious Sect: AgapemoneCatherine LaytonChapter 10: “A Scandalous and Painful Case”: Marriage, Libel, and the Church, 1873–1895Ginger FrostChapter 11: The Cause Célèbre of the Year, If Not the Decade:May, Dowager Duchess of SutherlandCatherine LaytonChapter 12: Regina v. Dunn:Lady Angela Burdett-Coutts and the Irish AnnoyanceDaniel StuartChapter 13: A Poor Gamble:The Disastrous Elopement of the “Pocket Venus” (Lady Florence Paget)Catherine LaytonChapter 14: A “Voice from the Grave”:Lady Flora Hastings, Queen Victoria, and the Scandal of PregnancySuzanne DalyChapter 15: Poisonous Words:Criminal Rhetoric and the Trials of Mary Ann Cotton and Florence MaybrickKatherine Anne Gilbert and Cheryl Blake PriceChapter 16: “I am a woman all alone”: The Case of Mrs. ManningCatherine LaytonChapter 17: Lady Lincoln and the Lesser Life of the 1850 Lincoln DivorceGail SavageChapter 18: Women in the Military and Their Heraldry in the PressClaire Cookson-HillsChapter 19: Virtue v. Heroism:Kate Dickinson’s Case Against Colonel Valentine BakerCatherine LaytonChapter 20: Monstrous Martyrdom:The Trials of Oscar WildeTom Ue and Aaron EamesPart 3: Scandalous Reading and Delightfully Despicable NovelsChapter 21: Edith Cooper’s Sin:Mapping the Wilful Bodies of Michael FieldSharon BickleChapter 22: “Let us adore spilled blood”:Swinburne and the Scandal of Poems and BalladsMichael CraskeChapter 23: Edith J. Simcox and the Scandal of Queer FormKellie HolzerChapter 24: Scandalous Exogamy in Anthony Trollope’s The Prime MinisterLauren CameronChapter 25: Ouida: Her Scandalous Life and Scandalous NovelsCatherine LaytonChapter 26: The Scandalous Deconstruction of Victorian Morals in Anna Lombard:What Made Victoria(ns) Cross?Purna BanerjeeChapter 27: Daddy’s Little Angel in the House:The Managing Daughter and the Incest TabooEmily DotsonChapter 28: The Nineteenth-Century Sex Worker: Avoiding Surveillance, Stereotypes, and Scandal Hollie Geary-JonesChapter 29: Sexy Dirt: Homosexual Scandal and Late-Victorian Social ReformS. Brooke CameronChapter 30: A Confusion of Discourses: Scandal and Degeneracy at the Fin de SiècleSarah E. MaierIndex

Brenda Ayres is retired from full-time residential teaching but currently teaches nineteenth-century English literature and professional writing online for several universities.Sarah E. Maier is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Let’s Talk ScandalBrenda AyresPart 1: Scandalous Victoriana Chapter 1: The Afterlives of Victorian ScandalsLesley A. HallChapter 2: “Her only fear is convention”:The Bohemian Girl in Victorian Art and LifeAnne Anderson, Bohemians in Paris, Anglo-BohemiaChapter 3: Reading Between the Lines:“Town Jottings” from the Savage Club in the Brighton Guardian, 1877Catherine LaytonChapter 4: Scandalous Stupor:Chloroform and Robbery in Victorian PeriodicalsAshlee SimonChapter 5: Suicide as Scandal:Representations from Victorian Life and ArtCatherine J. Golden Chapter 6: Scandalous Women Wearing Cloaks of ReligionBrenda AyresChapter 7: The Darwin ScandalTony SchwabPart 2: Scandalous PartiesChapter 8: Victorian Atheists: Cultivating Scandal as a Way of LifeDavid NashChapter 9: Scandals in a Religious Sect: AgapemoneCatherine LaytonChapter 10: “A Scandalous and Painful Case”: Marriage, Libel, and the Church, 1873–1895Ginger FrostChapter 11: The Cause Célèbre of the Year, If Not the Decade:May, Dowager Duchess of SutherlandCatherine LaytonChapter 12: Regina v. Dunn:Lady Angela Burdett-Coutts and the Irish AnnoyanceDaniel StuartChapter 13: A Poor Gamble:The Disastrous Elopement of the “Pocket Venus” (Lady Florence Paget)Catherine LaytonChapter 14: A “Voice from the Grave”:Lady Flora Hastings, Queen Victoria, and the Scandal of PregnancySuzanne DalyChapter 15: Poisonous Words:Criminal Rhetoric and the Trials of Mary Ann Cotton and Florence MaybrickKatherine Anne Gilbert and Cheryl Blake PriceChapter 16: “I am a woman all alone”: The Case of Mrs. ManningCatherine LaytonChapter 17: Lady Lincoln and the Lesser Life of the 1850 Lincoln DivorceGail SavageChapter 18: Women in the Military and Their Heraldry in the PressClaire Cookson-HillsChapter 19: Virtue v. Heroism:Kate Dickinson’s Case Against Colonel Valentine BakerCatherine LaytonChapter 20: Monstrous Martyrdom:The Trials of Oscar WildeTom Ue and Aaron EamesPart 3: Scandalous Reading and Delightfully Despicable NovelsChapter 21: Edith Cooper’s Sin:Mapping the Wilful Bodies of Michael FieldSharon BickleChapter 22: “Let us adore spilled blood”:Swinburne and the Scandal of Poems and BalladsMichael CraskeChapter 23: Edith J. Simcox and the Scandal of Queer FormKellie HolzerChapter 24: Scandalous Exogamy in Anthony Trollope’s The Prime MinisterLauren CameronChapter 25: Ouida: Her Scandalous Life and Scandalous NovelsCatherine LaytonChapter 26: The Scandalous Deconstruction of Victorian Morals in Anna Lombard:What Made Victoria(ns) Cross?Purna BanerjeeChapter 27: Daddy’s Little Angel in the House:The Managing Daughter and the Incest TabooEmily DotsonChapter 28: The Nineteenth-Century Sex Worker: Avoiding Surveillance, Stereotypes, and Scandal Hollie Geary-JonesChapter 29: Sexy Dirt: Homosexual Scandal and Late-Victorian Social ReformS. Brooke CameronChapter 30: A Confusion of Discourses: Scandal and Degeneracy at the Fin de SiècleSarah E. MaierIndex