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Tuke, William, 43

Turner, Richard, 127

Tustal, Chateau de (the Gironde), 141

Union League Club of New York, 286

United States of America, 68, 173, 229, 251, 256

Gilded Age, 255-7, 340, 379

honour in pre-WW 1 era, 267-8, 292, 336, 339

see also
judicial and legal system, US; New York

Uruburu, Paula, 258

USSR, 378

Vanderbilt family, 257, 286

Verdi, Giuseppe,
La Traviata,
139

de Vigny, Alfred, ‘Les Amants de Montmorency', 216

virginity, 291, 293, 294, 296, 298, 388, 389

vitriol, 140, 199, 202, 203

les vitrioleuses
in France, 199-200, 201-5

Wagner, Charles G., 310, 318-20, 322, 323, 324, 327, 354

Wakefield Asylum, 43

Waldorf Hotel, New York, 348, 352

Watson, Reverend John, 68-9, 87, 113, 120

Waxman, Claire, 392

Welles, Orson,
Citizen Kane,
372

Wellington Hotel, New York, 277-8

West Riding Asylum, 49

Whist Club, Manhattan, 349

Whistler, James McNeill, 78

White, Chief Constable George, 15

White, Lawrence, 260, 264-5

White, Mrs Stanford, 302

White, Stanford, 256-8, 259, 260, 290, 298, 337, 373

Anthony Comstock and, 258, 268-9, 287, 299, 351

The Architect of Desire
(1996 book about), 374

arranges photographs of Evelyn Nesbit, 278-9

Evelyn Nesbit and, 259, 274-82, 289-90, 292- 3, 294-5, 296-7, 301, 306, 317, 325, 341, 342, 343

Garden apartment, 257-8, 265, 269, 278, 281

moves Nesbit family to Wellington Hotel, 277-8

Mrs Nesbit's loyalty to, 291, 302

murder of, 258, 260-3, 264-5

obituaries, 265

obtains affidavit from Evelyn, 297, 329

press smears and insinuations after murder of, 265-6

statutory rape of Evelyn Nesbit, 279-80, 292-3, 294-5, 301, 306, 317, 325, 341, 342, 343

Thaw's obsession with, 267, 268, 269, 270, 286-8, 291, 292-3, 294-5, 296, 299, 322-3

‘vices' and ‘atrocities' of, 265-6, 268-9, 337, 340, 341, 343

White, William Alanson, 307, 310, 331, 332, 346, 347, 366-7, 375

opens teaching to black students, 311

opinion on ‘The Credo of Psychiatrists', 376, 377, 378, 381

Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
(1916 textbook with Bermard Glueck), 375-6

Whittaw, Mrs Adelaide, 108

Wiener, Martin J., 114

Wilde, Oscar,
De Profundis,
124

Wiley, Dr Charles J., 314-16

Williams, ‘Clubber', 255

Williams, Thomas H., 267-8

Winslow, L. Forbes, 83, 99, 121

women

acquittals on grounds of insanity, 115

anxieties about hypnotism and, 231-4

avenging of honour as mitigating factor, 187-8, 191-3, 199, 202, 235, 239-40, 241, 242, 243-6, 397

belle époque
notions of femininity, 139-41, 144, 167-8, 188, 190-5, 198, 199-201, 235-6, 240-1, 246, 250-1

campaign for rights in France, 200-1

championing of property rights for, 114

criminality and ideals of femininity, 379-81

emancipated femininity in twentieth-century, 339, 341, 342-3, 373, 387, 392

Evelyn Nesbit as the ‘modern Helen', 259

examinations by doctors, 59-60

female desire as aberrant, 34, 50, 51, 59, 61, 71, 107, 250, 251, 339

in French judicial system, 161, 172, 188, 193-5, 198, 199, 235-6, 379-80

Gilded Age notions of femininity, 259, 300, 325-6, 339-43

illicit passions for doctors, 56-7, 59-61, 62, 65

interest in Edmunds case, 27, 69

John Ruskin's thoughts on, 72-4, 78

John Stuart Mill's thoughts on, 24-5

Lombroso's view of the criminal woman, 161

love crimes by as feature of
belle époque,
193-4, 199, 235-6

as poisoners, 25, 69, 114

reproductive system, 49-51

sexualized female badness, 74-5, 77

‘spinster' classification, 5, 23, 46, 54, 122, 124

splitting of into two (the chaste and the sullied), 295

suffrage campaigns, 68, 200-1

upper class, 5

Victorian notions of femininity, 5, 34, 49-51, 53, 59, 63, 70-2, 73-5, 107, 114-15, 122-3, 130, 131

Victorian restrictions on desires of, 52, 53, 54, 59-60, 61, 63, 72

les vitrioleuses
in France, 199-200, 201-5

Wood, Dr William, 82-3, 84-5

writing, unstoppable, 28, 70

Wuornos, Aileen, 380-1

Yale, 388, 389

Yarmouth, Earl of, 266, 344

York Retreat, 43

Yorke, Charles, 3-4

zinc, 16

Zola, Émile, 139, 218

Nana,
140, 273

Zurich, 295, 309

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