In late 1881, the murder of seven-year-old Georgina Moore sent shockwaves through Victorian London. Her father’s mistress, Esther Pay, was widely believed to have killed the child in a furious act of ...
Peter Lovesey: his first Cribb novel, Wobble to Death (1970), exhumed the bizarre Victorian phenomenon of the ‘wobble’ or endurance walking-race - Geoffrey Swaine/Shutterstock ​Peter ...
The Public Theatre's production of Patricia Milton's THE VICTORIAN LADIES DETECTIVE COLLECTIVE is a witty, sophisticated, clever examination of late Victorian mores, skillfully embedded with subtle ...
On the screen and on the page, today we are accustomed to seeing fictional representations of women detectives kicking in doors, taking down names and sleuthing out villains. From Olivia Benson ...