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Women writers and detectives in nineteenth-century crime fiction : the mothers of the mystery genre /
Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre, showing that early detective writing was as much a feminine as it was a masculine domain. Traditionally the nineteenth-century 'creation' of crime writing has been a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Colección: | Crime files series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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: Metta Victoria Fuller Victor ('Seeley Regester')
- The Art of Murder: Anna Katharine Green
- Conclusion: 'She Has Got a Murderess in Manuscript in her Bedroom'
- A Timeline of Early True Crime and its Fiction.