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Husbands, wives, and lawyers: gender roles and professional representation in Trollope and the Adelaide Bartlett case.

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From: College Literature
Date: 19980101
Author:Reiter, Paula Jean

The analysis of legal tactics and gender assumptions in the construction of female roles in nineteenth century England was made by comparing the strategy of representation availed by a wife accused of forging her husband's will in Anthony Trollope's Orley Farm to that used by Adelaide Barlett who was charged with poisoning her husband in the popular 1886 Pimlico case. It was clear the Barlett and Orley Farms' Lady Mason were acquitted because they have adopted the logic of passivity and submissive role middle-class men have designed them to be.

There is, however, one subject which Mr. ...

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