6/1/2023 0 Comments Northanger abbey![]() ![]() Hayward anonymously published Revelations of a Lady Detective in 1864 or if the 1864 edition was a reprint of an 1861 edition barely mentioned but otherwise unknown” (xii). In his introduction to The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, for example, Michael Sims writes: “I’m imprecise about the year because critics aren’t sure. The origins of the fictional female detective are more obscure. The success of these nineteenth-century characters, literary historians have argued, was rooted in simultaneous curiosity about and suspicion of the solving of crime as a new full-time pursuit for a professional workforce. ![]() ![]() It doesn’t take a super-sleuth to trace the origins of the fictional male detective to Edgar Allan Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin and, of course, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, both of whom emerged in tandem with the rise of early police forces in Britain and America. ![]()
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