Miss Marple, Spinster Sleuth

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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A feminist take on the gossiping busybody of St Mary Mead. Thanks to my guest, Leandra Griffith. As well as being Shedunnit's production assistant, she posts about mysteries on her Instagram @leandra_thetbrzero and her YouTube channel. Become a member of the Shedunnit book club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/membership. Mentioned in the episode: — Nemesis by Agatha Christie — "The Tuesday Night Club" by Agatha Christie, featured in The Thirteen Problems — The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie — The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie — The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie — The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie — Agatha Christie's The Complete Secret Notebooks by John Curran Related Shedunnit episodes: — Surplus Women — The Christie Completists — Queering The Golden Age NB: Links to Blackwell's are affiliate links, meaning that the podcast receives a small commission when you purchase a book there (the price remains the same for you). Blackwell's is a UK bookselling chain that ships internationally at no extra charge. To be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter. The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice. Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/missmarplespinstersleuthtranscript. Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This summer, it's time to get to know the players and your taste buds.
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0:36.6	Welcome to She Done It.
0:38.2	I'm Caroline Crampton.
0:40.5	I want to take you back in time today, to November 2018, when the very first episode of She
0:46.7	Done It was published.
0:48.6	My subject for that one was the so-called surplus women.
0:52.6	The women it was believed had been left over as single women, after a vast swath of men
0:58.4	of marriageable age had been killed in the First World War.
1:02.8	In it, I explored the connection that this perceived demographic trend, or even crisis according
1:07.9	to some, had to the figure of the Spinster Sleuth, who became a cornerstone of the Golden
1:13.9	Age of Detector Fiction in the interwar period.
1:17.5	I think Miss Marple, Miss Silver, Miss Clemson, Miss Lemon, and plenty of others.
1:24.1	I've covered lots of subjects since then, in over a hundred episodes, but I remain
1:29.0	very intrigued by the figure of the Spinster in mystery fiction.
1:33.8	And so, as you can imagine, I was delighted to learn that my production assistant, Leandra
1:38.5	Griffith, was writing her master's thesis on a closely related subject.
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