The Epilogue briefly considers the female perpetrators in novels by women from the 1790s: Inchbald's Nature and Art, Wollstonecraft's Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman, and Robinson's The Natural Daughter. These include nonfiction criminal writings, 'amatory' novels by Behn (The Fair Jilt and The History of the Nun) and Manley (The Wife's Resentment), and two canonical novels, Defoe's Roxana, the Unfortunate Mistress, and Fielding's Amelia.

Minimizing genre boundaries, the study considers all relevant types of sources as mutually influential. eighteenth-century narratives that were spun around the figure of the female murderer.

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