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Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction

Part of the Crime Files Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230289406

ISBN: 978-1-349-32311-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 21, 2015

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: Look for the Women

Sussex, Lucy

Pages: 1 –5

[‘Cherchez la femme’ is an oft-repeated phrase in mystery and detective fiction. It first appeared in Alexandre Dumas’ 1854–7 novel Les Mohicans de Paris as ‘Cherchons la femme’, words spoken by M. Jackal, a police detective. The subsequent popular listings could fill a book: they range from...
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Chapter 2‘Origins are Multifarious and Unclean!’: The Beginnings of Crime Fiction

Sussex, Lucy

Pages: 6 –25

[The beginning of what is variously termed crime/mystery/detective fiction is popularly regarded as monogenetic, the achievement of a single writer. As if depicted in a neoclassical portrait, the genre emerges in 1841, fully formed like the goddess Athena, from out of the febrile imagination of...
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Chapter 3Mrs Radcliffe as Conan Doyle?

Sussex, Lucy

Pages: 26 –44

[In choosing the title ‘Mrs Radcliffe as Conan Doyle?’ provocation is intended. To a modern crime reader, the comparison seems at first unlikely; and from Linton it was not a feminist statement. She was a Victorian author whose youthful radicalism was abandoned for strident polemics against...
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Chapter 4‘A Most Preposterous Organ of Wonder’: Catherine Crowe

Sussex, Lucy

Pages: 45 –63

[No image of Catherine Crowe exists, despite a long life (1790–1872), a career encompassing various literary forms and also notoriety. All we have is her work. She wrote true crime articles, including the 1849 ‘Lycanthropy’, which despite the title concerns the case of Francis Bertrand, a...
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Chapter 5‘I’m a Thief-Taker, Young Lady’

Sussex, Lucy

Pages: 64 –80

[The 1850s, in the canonical crime tradition, is an interregnum between Poe and the Sensation novels of Wilkie Collins in the 1860s, apart from Dickens’ Bleak House (1852–3), with its Inspector Bucket. Closer examination shows an unbroken continuity in crime fiction during this decade. Moreover,...
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Chapter 6Getting Away with Murder: Mary Braddon

Sussex, Lucy

Pages: 81 –100

[Sensation novels were a notorious literary genre of the 1860s, named for the furore they created, and their appeal, seen as visceral, depicting the worst of human nature. They drew on contemporary famous cases of murder and bigamy, and often retailed them in a narrative form remarkably prescient...
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Chapter 7‘Dead! And … Never Called Me Mother’: Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood

Sussex, Lucy

Pages: 101 –119

[In early 1862 the publisher Richard Bentley wrote to one of his authors, Ellen Wood, asking if she knew anything about M. E. Braddon. The reply was that ‘M. E.’ was ‘a Miss Braddon’ although nothing else could be ascertained. Wood then revealed a keen awareness of Braddon as a literary rival.]
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Chapter 8The (Feminine) Eye of the Law: Mary Helena Fortune

Sussex, Lucy

Pages: 120 –141

[Scene: a sailing vessel bound for Australia. On deck, a steerage emigrant reads aloud to his messmates an account of a gory murder from a Catnach broadsheet. In the first-class saloon, the same crime is perused, in The Times. A young woman, a second-class passenger, pores over the latest...
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Chapter 9A Jill-of-All-Writing-Trades: Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (‘Seeley Regester’)

Sussex, Lucy

Pages: 142 –163

[We do not know who Mrs Barber was, whether young or elderly, like Miss Jane Marple, with whom she shared a fondness for knitting baby clothes. She occupied several pages only of an 1866–7 American novel, The Dead Letter, but enough information was given to hint at a New York equivalent of Mrs...
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Chapter 10The Art of Murder: Anna Katharine Green

Sussex, Lucy

Pages: 164 –182

[In 1883 American publisher George Putnam mailed a debut detective novel to Wilkie Collins. The book had been first published in 1878, and would have its English edition the following year. In modern publishing, sending a first novel to a famous writer would be to elicit a blurb endorsement. With...

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