ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with women who are more at risk of such violently repressive punishments than of rape. It discusses several of the women discussed, which concentrates on older women, would achieve high scores on the one-sex model. The one-sex model of relations between men and women is predicated on an assumption that women's bodies are less capable than men's are. Once a woman has outlived her prime role in the economy of sexual reproduction, she also has a lesser part to play in the narrative economy of conventional romance. Unlike most of Scott's heroines—and many other Romantic heroines—Lucy has a mother, but no confidante, correspondent, or servant who offers her emotional support. Scott's strategies for presenting women of psychic power certainly paid off in terms of audience interest. Scott's powerful women attracted audiences for adaptations of his novels during his lifetime.
