Women writers and detectives in nineteenth-century crime fiction: the mothers of the mystery genre

This book is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre. Traditionally theinvention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and ConanDoyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of this book is to 'cherchez les femmes', ina project of rediscovery. INDICE: - 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! Andb&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 - Bibliography -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-27229-3
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 232
• Fecha Publicación: 23/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés