Revelations of a Lady Detective

by William Stephens Hayward

Book Overview

In nineteenth-century London, middle-class women did not engage in what were seen as "unladylike activities." There were many jobs that a woman simply could not be expected to do because they were viewed as unsuitable for finer female sensibilities. The idea of a woman being involved in the murkiness of criminal detection must have seemed a radical and adventurous one in Victorian times: women simply did not do that sort of thing. And yet, in 1864,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071235896X
• ISBN13: 9780712358965
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: British Library
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.5"