Creating the Fictional Female Detective: The Sleuth Heroines of British Women Writers, 1890-1940 (Paperback)

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This study examines a number of previously overlooked or undervalued women detective fiction writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and traces their relationship to later women writers who shaped the future of the genre, Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, and Gladys Mitchell.

Product Details ISBN-10: 0786425288
ISBN-13: 9780786425280
Published: McFarland & Company, 02/01/2006
Pages: 207
Language: English