"This study examines a number of previously overlooked or undervalued women detective fiction writers of the late 19th and early 20th cenuries and traces their relationship to later women writers who shaped the future of the genre, Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, and Gladys Mitchell"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.
Contents
Professions for women -- Female knowledge ; of domesticity and intuition -- The spinster as professional woman -- Women writers, detectives, and popular culture -- Dorothy L. Sayers and professional authority.