ABSTRACT
Pauline Tarnowsky published two books, Étude anthropométrique sur les prostituées et les voleuses (Anthropological Study of Prostitutes and Female Thieves, 1889) and Les Femmes homicides (Women Who Kill, 1908). Little is known of her or her work, although she was clearly one of Europe’s leading criminal anthropologists. Her books, while cited frequently and admiringly at the turn of the century, were never translated into English. Today she is known mainly through Lombroso’s frequent references to her in Criminal Woman, to which she contributed data and photographs of female offenders.1 Tarnowsky seems to have been born in Russia (in both books, the criminals are Russian prisoners, and the prostitutes of the first book were patients in a Russian hospital); and she was a physician.
