Sara Lodge The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective Yale University Press, November 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The combination of a history of the female detective as a working part of the police force during the Victorian era, and her depiction in fictional accounts ofContinue reading “Week beginning February 19, 2025.”
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Week beginning 14 September 2022
The reviews this week, one fiction, and the other non-fiction, are books to which I gave five stars in my reviews for NetGalley and Good Reads. I thoroughly enjoyed both. The first is Lisa Jewell’s Invisible Girl; the non-fiction is Changing Roles Women After the Great War by Dr Vivien Newman. Both books were sentContinue reading “Week beginning 14 September 2022”