Miss Mephistopheles
Author | : Fergus Hume |
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Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1880 |
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Author | : Fergus Hume |
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Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1880 |
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Author | : Fergus Hume |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2019-12-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Miss Mephistopheles by Fergus Hume is the second book to Madame Midas, following Mrs. Villier's life in Ballarat, a small mining town. Mrs. Villier must discover the secrets behind a local romance and a grisly murder. Excerpt: "A wet Sunday--dreary, dismal, and infinitely sloppy. Even the bells ringing the people into evening service seemed to feel the depressing influence of the weather, and their brazen voices sounded hoarse and grumbling as if they rang under protest. Cold, too!--not a brisk sharp frost--for here in Melbourne frost and snow are unknown; but a persevering, insinuating, gnawing cold, just disagreeable enough to make one shiver and shake with anxiety to get home to a bright fire and dry clothes."
Author | : Kate Watson |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786491175 |
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.
Author | : Dr Christopher Pittard |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2013-05-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1409478823 |
Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fictions in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. The centrality of material and moral purity as a theme of the genre, Pittard argues, both reflected and satirised a contemporary discourse of degeneration in which criminality was equated with dirt and disease and where national boundaries were guarded against the threat of the criminal foreigner. Situating his discussion within the ideologies underpinning George Newnes's Strand Magazine as well as a wide range of nonfiction texts, Pittard demonstrates that the genre was a response to the seductive and impure delights associated with sensation and gothic novels. Further, Pittard suggests that criticism of detective fiction has in turn become obsessed with the idea of purity, thus illustrating how a genre concerned with policing the impure itself became subject to the same fear of contamination. Contributing to the richness of Pittard's project are his discussions of the convergence of medical discourse and detective fiction in the 1890s, including the way social protest movements like the antivivisectionist campaigns and medical explorations of criminality raised questions related to moral purity.
Author | : Borough of Portsmouth Free Public Libraries. Central Library |
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Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1894 |
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Author | : Mrs. Edward Kennard |
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Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Golf |
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Total Pages | : 756 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
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Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1895 |
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Author | : Mrs. Robert Jocelyn |
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Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1896 |
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Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Classified catalogs |
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