The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective - Sara Lodge Pages:384 pages, 41 b-w illus., 1 map, 1 fig. they tell an unexpectedly intimate

they tell an unexpectedly intimate story filled with feelings of grief and love that has driven him on more than any rigid ideology or loyalty to a particular faction

There's an orphanage that's actually a boot camp

of sexual desire

this account of what it's like to care for the mentally ill as they sink into schizophrenia

The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective - Sara Lodge Pages:384 pages, 41 b-w illus., 1 map, 1 fig. they tell an unexpectedly intimateA revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account and how they became a cultural sensationShortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize 2025From 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