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The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime by Michael Sims
The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime by Michael Sims







The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime by Michael Sims

Green’s humorous spinster sleuth Amelia Butterworth also appears in an excerpt from the 1897 novel That Affair Next Door (1897). Paschal in 1864 to Anna Katharine Green’s Violet Strange in 1915. "Editor Michael Sims gathers 11 stories about female detectives in British and American fiction from W.S. The book bespeaks the era’s restlessness for the empowerment of women, embodying culture’s tendency to first imagine social shifts, then enact them." "Sims organizes a meet-and-greet with the most notorious crime-fighting females of Victorian literature.









The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime by Michael Sims