Kobiecy detektyw w dziewiętnastowiecznych powieściach detektywistycznych i we współczesnych kryminałach retro autorstwa kobiet. Kilka uwag do tradycji kryminalnego pisania
Female detective in the nineteenth century mystery novels and in the vintage‑style crime fiction by women writers A few remarks to the tradition of female crime fiction

Author(s): Maria Berkan‑Jabłońska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: lady‑detective; female crime fiction of the 19th century; A.K. Green; L.C. Pirkis; M.R. Rinehart; N. Szagdaj; vintage‑style crime fiction
Summary/Abstract: The article reminds a few works representing the nineteenth‑century detective literature by women writers with a female protagonist in the role of detective. Stories and novels by Catherine Crowe, A.K. Green, L.C. Pirkis and M.R. Rinehart can be not only a good example illustrating the meandering path of development of the literary genre, but also can document the ways in which the popular literature, with its important component like crime stories, cooperates with the growing emancipation tendencies. The characters of female detectives illustrate the problems of identity of women and reveal the truth about their difficult confrontation with the public life in the 19th century. The analysis of the past detective novels give the opportunity for the fuller assessment of contemporary vintage‑style crime fiction by women authors, which plot refers to the nineteenth‑century realities (eg. R. Bowen, N. Szagdaj).

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