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 the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of this book is to ...

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Main Author:	Sussex, Lucy (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:	Crime files series.
Subjects:	Literature. British and Irish Literature. Fiction. Gender Studies. Nineteenth-Century Literature. British literature. Gender expression. Gender identity. Literature, Modern > 19th century. Sex (Psychology) Sociology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book