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

by Lucy Sussex

Book Overview

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"