Criticism

Loveday Brooke and Neo-Victorian Depictions of Women Detectives, by Elena Bolstad

Submitted by Rebecca Nesvet on
February, 2024

By Elena Bolstad

Catherine Louisa Pirkis’s The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (1893) is both a historically important stepping stone in feminist literature and a blueprint for the modern-day neo-Victorian woman detective. Recently, there has been a noticeable uptick in modern media depictions of Victorian women detectives. Inspecting Loveday Brooke through a modern lens can explain why there’s a recent influx of Victorian women detectives on stage and screen and can explore to what extent these representations pay homage to Pirkis’s titular character.

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Submitted by Rebecca Nesvet on
February, 2024

Bibliography 

“Advertisement,” Ludgate Monthly 1 (May 1891), 7, 16.

“Advertisement for Slater’s Detective Agency.” The Era Almanack, January 1888, 110.

Allen, Grant. “The Scallywag.” Graphic 47, no. 1 (1893): 565.

Atholl, Justin. “Mystery of the Missing Women.” Answers 123 (March 21, 1953): 3.

Bălan, Andreea. “French Women as The Other in Some Victorian Novels.” Translation Studies:            Retrospective and Prospective Views 23, no. 13 (2020): 19–28.

Varney the Vampyre, or, the Feast of Blood

Submitted by Rebecca Nesvet on

Varney the Vampyre, or, the Feast of Blood: A Romance (1845-7) is one of the longest-running and most successful "penny bloods," or Victorian periodical serial fictions. Written primarily by James Malcolm Rymer, the creator of penny fiction villain Sweeney Todd, Varney is the missing link between John William Polidori's "The Vampyre" (1819) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). It established many lasting conventions of vampire literature and is an important precursor to the vampires of Silent Era American cinema.

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