Victorian Pioneers

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Decades before Miss Marple, there were Victorian lady sleuths taking on the world with their bloomers and their bicycles. Find links to all the books and sources mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/victorianpioneers. Special thanks today to my guest Olivia Rutigliano. You can follow her on Twitter @oldrutigliano and reader her recent article for Lapham’s Quarterly “The Lady Is A Detective” here. 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/bookclub. Books and sources: —The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime edited by Michael Sims —The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories edited by Michael SimsTo 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, Tumblr 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/victorianpioneersstranscript. 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	Stream your favorite crime all the time on Pluto TV.
0:04.0	The investigation is ongoing.
0:06.0	Uncover true crime documentaries.
0:08.0	Well, this is interesting.
0:09.0	Do some serious time with bingable dramas.
0:12.0	My name's Gil Grissom.
0:13.0	I'm with the Las Vegas Crime Law.
0:15.0	Everything from CSI.
0:16.0	We got you.
0:17.0	To police intercepts.
0:18.0	Police in the dog.
0:19.0	There are loads of channels
0:21.0	dedicated to the crime shows you love.
0:23.4	That's what I do.
0:25.1	The world be easy.
0:26.1	Stream all day with nothing to pay.
0:28.8	Pluto TV. Before there was Miss Marple, Mrs Bradley or Harriet Vane, there was Amelia Butterworth,
0:40.9	Dorkus Dean and Love Day Brook. Although Victorian detective fiction is most associated
0:47.0	with a male character who tends to overshadow all else, Sherlock Holmes, there was a thriving tradition of women detectives among 19th century authors.
0:57.0	Some of the Lady Sleuths I mentioned there were employed directly by the police,
1:02.0	while others worked for private agencies or entirely on their own.
1:07.0	What they all have in common, though, is irrepressible confidence and a desire for adventure. They track down murderers, foil thefts, trail criminals in disguise,
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