Sherlock's Sisters : The British Female Detective, 1864-1913.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- The Nineteenth Century Series General Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Female Detective in Britain -- Hayward: Revelations of a Lady Detective (1861 /1864) -- Forrester: The Female Detective (1864) -- Collins: The Diaiy of Anne Rodway (1856) -- 2 The Victorian Female Detective, 1888-1894 -- Merrick: Mr Baɀalgette's Agent (1888) -- Hume: Madame Midas (1888) -- Braddon: Thou Art the Man (1894) -- Pirkis: The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (1894) -- Corbett: When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead (1894) -- 3 The Victorian Female Detective, 1897-1900 -- Sims: Dorcas Dene, Detective (1897) -- Hume: Hagar of the Pawn-shop (1898) -- Allen: Miss Cayley's Adventures (1899) -- Heron-Maxwell: The Adventures of a Lady Pearl-Broker (1899) -- Meade/Eustace: The Detections of Miss Cusack (1899-1900) -- Allen: Hilda Wade (1900) -- Bodkin: Dora Myrl, The Lady Detective (1900) -- 4 The Edwardian Female Detective to 1913 -- Orczy: Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (1910) -- Marsh: Judith Lee, Some Pages from Her Life (1912) -- Lowndes: The Lodger (1913) -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Sherlock's Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913 examines the fictional female detective in Victorian and Edwardian literature. This book considers a range of literary texts by both female and male writers which concentrate on detection by women, particularly those which followed the creation of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. Writers such as Beatrice Heron-Maxwell, Emmuska Orczy, L.T. Meade, Catherine Pirkis, Fergus Hume, Grant Allen, Leonard Merrick, Marie Belloc Lowndes, George Sims, McDonnell Bodkin and Richard Marsh are here incorporated into the canon of Victorian and Edwardian literature, many for the first time.
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