Women Writing Crime Fiction, 1860-1880: Fourteen American, British and Australian Authors - Softcover

Watson, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786467827 ISBN 13: 9780786467822

Publisher: McFarland, 2012

Synopsis

Arthur Conan Doyle has long been considered the greatest writer of crime fiction, and the gender bias of the genre has foregrounded William Godwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Emile Gaboriau and Fergus Hume. But earlier and significant contributions were being made by women in Britain, the United States and Australia between 1860 and 1880, a period that was central to the development of the genre. This work focuses on women writers of this genre and these years, including Catherine Crowe, Caroline Clive, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs. Henry (Ellen) Wood, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Louisa May Alcott, Metta Victoria Fuller Victor, Anna Katharine Green, Celeste de Chabrillan, "Oline Keese" (Caroline Woolmer Leakey), Eliza Winstanley, Ellen Davitt, and Mary Helena Fortune--innovators who set a high standard for women writers to follow.

About this title

About the Author:

Kate Watson writes about women's writing, the nineteenth century, gender, and crime fiction. She lives in the United Kingdom.

Review:

"Watson's work is well organized and compellingly argued...an important contribution to the field"--Modern Language Review.

About this edition

• Publisher: McFarland
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0786467827
• ISBN 13: 9780786467822
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260