French vices and British liberties: Gender, class and narrative competition in a late Victorian sex scandal*

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes I am grateful to the many people who have read or heard earlier versions of this essay, but I would especially like to thank Geoff Eley, Judy Walkowitz, Paul Israel and the members of the faculty seminar of the Center for the Comparative Study of Social Transformations at the University of Michigan, for their challenges, encouragement and critical generosity. Thanks also to the staff of the Churchill College Archives Centre, Cambridge, for their enthusiastic assistance with the Roskill‐Enthoven‐Dilke collection.