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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-346) and index.;

505 0 a| Prologue: The vanishing lady -- Introduction -- Searchers and watchers: female detectives working with the police 1850-1900 -- Home truths: divorce, domestic violence and the fictional female detective -- Sensation and the stage: the Victorian female detective in the limelight -- Sex and the female dick: the secrets of the private enquiry agency -- Political PIs: newspapers and the new woman detective -- Mrs Warne's profession: inventing the female detective -- Conclusion.;

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520 a| "From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realise that women detectives successfully investigated Victorian Britain, working both with the police and for private agencies, which they sometimes managed themselves. Sara Lodge recovers these forgotten women's lives. She also reveals the sensational role played by the fantasy female detective in Victorian melodrama and popular fiction, enthralling a public who relished the spectacle of a cross-dressing, fist-swinging heroine who got the better of love rats, burglars, and murderers alike. How did the morally ambiguous work of real women detectives, sometimes paid to betray their fellow women, compare with the exploits of their fictional counterparts, who always save the day? Lodge's book takes us into the murky underworld of Victorian society on both sides of the Atlantic, revealing the female detective as both an unacknowledged labourer and a feminist icon"-- Provided by publisher.;

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The mysterious case of the Victorian female detective / Sara Lodge.

Author/creator	Lodge, Sara
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2024]
Description	xix, 359 pages illustrations 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	Women detectives--Great Britain. --History. --19th century. Women detectives--United States. --History. --19th century. Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism. Women detectives in literature Women and literature--Great Britain. --History. --19th century. English fiction--19th century. --History and criticism.

Physical medium	illustrations
Contents	Prologue: The vanishing lady -- Introduction -- Searchers and watchers: female detectives working with the police 1850-1900 -- Home truths: divorce, domestic violence and the fictional female detective -- Sensation and the stage: the Victorian female detective in the limelight -- Sex and the female dick: the secrets of the private enquiry agency -- Political PIs: newspapers and the new woman detective -- Mrs Warne's profession: inventing the female detective -- Conclusion.
Abstract	"From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realise that women detectives successfully investigated Victorian Britain, working both with the police and for private agencies, which they sometimes managed themselves. Sara Lodge recovers these forgotten women's lives. She also reveals the sensational role played by the fantasy female detective in Victorian melodrama and popular fiction, enthralling a public who relished the spectacle of a cross-dressing, fist-swinging heroine who got the better of love rats, burglars, and murderers alike. How did the morally ambiguous work of real women detectives, sometimes paid to betray their fellow women, compare with the exploits of their fictional counterparts, who always save the day? Lodge's book takes us into the murky underworld of Victorian society on both sides of the Atlantic, revealing the female detective as both an unacknowledged labourer and a feminist icon"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-346) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2024942617
ISBN	9780300277883 hardcover

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