Creating the Fictional Female Detective
Subtitle: The Sleuth Heroines of British Women Writers, 1890-1940
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: May 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780786425280
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Women detectives in literature; Literary History And Criticism; Women In English Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Mystery & Detective Fiction; Women's Studies - General; Detective and mystery stories, English; English fiction; History and criticism; Women Authors
Description: "This study examines a number of previously overlooked or undervalued women detective fiction writers of the late 19th and early 20th cenuries and traces their relationship to later women writers who shaped the future of the genre, Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, and Gladys Mitchell"--Provided by publisher.