The figure of the fallen woman was at the very forefront of the Victorian social and literary conscience. And the theme permeates the visual arts and music as well. Julia Grella O'Connell draws upon music iconography, patristic theology, and the social history of female fallenness in an investigation of historical perceptions of the states of sin and grace, the possibility of flux between them, and the manner in which these concepts were represented in Victorian art and literature, with particular reference to the role played in these representations by music. O'Connell seeks to locate what...