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The murderous women writers of Oz.(International Crime & Mystery)(Australia)(Cover Story)
From: World Literature Today
Date: 20060101
Author:Davis, J. Madison
Cover Story
THE ROLE OF WOMEN WRITERS in mystery and suspense fiction has been decisive from the beginnings of the genre. The dime novel and the pulp novel provided women writers an outlet that they did not have in the mainstream publishing of the day. Seeley Register is credited with the first American detective novel, The Dead Letter (1864), and Anna Katherine Green is credited with the first American legal thriller, The Leavenworth Case (1878). In England, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was influenced by Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White (1860) in creating Lady Audley's Secret ...
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