Trish Ferguson is currently lecturing at Liverpool Hope University, having completed her PhD at Trinity College Dublin. Her primary research interests are in Victorian literature and culture, in particular the interdisciplinary nexus of law and literature in that era. She has also edited a collection of essays entitled Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes, which is a study of literary responses to how industrialization affected perceptions of time in the Victorian era.

• INTRODUCTION; “IF YOU ONLY KNEW ME THROUGH AND THROUGH”: THE DOMESTIC TRIAL SCENE AND NARRATIVE ADVOCACY; “I WASN’T IN MY SENSES – AND A MAN’S SENSES ARE HIMSELF”: THE LEGAL DEFENCE OF INSANITY; “I HATE TO BE THOUGHT MEN’S PROPERTY IN THAT WAY”: MARRIED WOMEN AND THE LAW; ‘WAITERS ON CHANCE’: THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT, LAND LAW REFORM AND RURAL DISPOSSESSION ; CONCLUSION.

Trish Ferguson is currently lecturing at Liverpool Hope University, having completed her PhD at Trinity College Dublin. Her primary research interests are in Victorian literature and culture, in particular the interdisciplinary nexus of law and literature in that era. She has also edited a collection of essays entitled Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes, which is a study of literary responses to how industrialization affected perceptions of time in the Victorian era.

• INTRODUCTION; “IF YOU ONLY KNEW ME THROUGH AND THROUGH”: THE DOMESTIC TRIAL SCENE AND NARRATIVE ADVOCACY; “I WASN’T IN MY SENSES – AND A MAN’S SENSES ARE HIMSELF”: THE LEGAL DEFENCE OF INSANITY; “I HATE TO BE THOUGHT MEN’S PROPERTY IN THAT WAY”: MARRIED WOMEN AND THE LAW; ‘WAITERS ON CHANCE’: THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT, LAND LAW REFORM AND RURAL DISPOSSESSION ; CONCLUSION.

Trish Ferguson is currently lecturing at Liverpool Hope University, having completed her PhD at Trinity College Dublin. Her primary research interests are in Victorian literature and culture, in particular the interdisciplinary nexus of law and literature in that era. She has also edited a collection of essays entitled Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes, which is a study of literary responses to how industrialization affected perceptions of time in the Victorian era.

• INTRODUCTION; “IF YOU ONLY KNEW ME THROUGH AND THROUGH”: THE DOMESTIC TRIAL SCENE AND NARRATIVE ADVOCACY; “I WASN’T IN MY SENSES – AND A MAN’S SENSES ARE HIMSELF”: THE LEGAL DEFENCE OF INSANITY; “I HATE TO BE THOUGHT MEN’S PROPERTY IN THAT WAY”: MARRIED WOMEN AND THE LAW; ‘WAITERS ON CHANCE’: THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT, LAND LAW REFORM AND RURAL DISPOSSESSION ; CONCLUSION.