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September 19, 2025Dickens quarterly

Seeing "our Sister-Women Suffer": Responding to Assaults against Women in Barnaby Rudge and David Copperfield

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Sexual assaults against young female characters in Dickens's works reveal societal attitudes toward women and violence.
In both Barnaby Rudge and David Copperfield, female victims are often blamed by narrators, reinforcing gender biases.
The analysis utilizes the #metoo framework to critique the portrayal of violence against women in literature.
The stories present female characters shaped by societal norms and literary tropes like the coquette and fallen woman.

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This article examines sexual assaults in Dickens's novels, highlighting #metoo themes and feminist perspectives.

Meoghan Byrne Cronin (2025) studied this question.

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