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Let’s face it: being a female vampire within the world of Victorian fiction sucks, both literally and figuratively. In almost all of her depictions throughout the nineteenth century, the female vampire is seen in two states: either feeding from the necks of her victims or on the hunt to do so, in the quest to satiate her voracious appetite.
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Fong, R.D. (2016). A Feminist Bloodletting. In: Hobson, A., Anyiwo, U.M. (eds) Gender in the Vampire Narrative. Teaching Gender. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-714-6_8
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