Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre

by Lucy Sussex

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List of Illustrations Foreword by Val McDermid Acknowledgements Introduction: Look for the Women 'Origins are Multifarious and Unclean!': the Beginnings of Crime Fiction Mrs Radcliffe as Conan Doyle? 'A Most Preposterous Organ of Wonder': Catherine Crowe 'I'm a Thief-taker, Young Lady' Getting Away with Murder: Mary Braddon 'Dead! And...Never Called Me Mother': Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood The (Feminine) Eye of the Law: Mary Helena Fortune A Jill-of-all-Writing-Trades:...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:134932311X

ISBN13:9781349323111

Release Date:January 2010

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:216 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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