The Female Detective. Edited by A. F.
Title | The Female Detective. Edited by A. F. PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Forrester |
Publisher | |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1868 |
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The Female Detective. Edited by A. F.
Title | The Female Detective. Edited by A. F. PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Forrester |
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Pages | |
Release | 1864 |
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Tales by a Female Detective. Edited by A. F.
Title | Tales by a Female Detective. Edited by A. F. PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Forrester |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1868 |
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The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
Title | The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Lodge |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2024-11-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300277881 |
A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account--and how they became a cultural sensation From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realise that women detectives successfully investigated Victorian Britain, working both with the police and for private agencies, which they sometimes managed themselves. Sara Lodge recovers these forgotten women's lives. She also reveals the sensational role played by the fantasy female detective in Victorian melodrama and popular fiction, enthralling a public who relished the spectacle of a cross-dressing, fist-swinging heroine who got the better of love rats, burglars, and murderers alike. How did the morally ambiguous work of real women detectives, sometimes paid to betray their fellow women, compare with the exploits of their fictional counterparts, who always save the day? Lodge's book takes us into the murky underworld of Victorian society on both sides of the Atlantic, revealing the female detective as both an unacknowledged labourer and a feminist icon.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Title | British Museum Catalogue of printed Books PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 630 |
Release | 1881 |
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Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Title | Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum PDF eBook |
Author | British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1028 |
Release | 1887 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
The Female Detective
Title | The Female Detective PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Forrester |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2022-11-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
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The Female Detective by Andrew Forrester is about a female detective who expertly evades suspicion while cracking the hardest cases. Excerpt: "Who am I? It can matter little who I am. It may be that I took to the trade, sufficiently comprehended in the title of this work without a word of it being read, because I had no other means of making a living; or it may be that for the work of detection I had a longing which I could not overcome."