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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN num: 9781593304812
ISBN number: 1593304811
Label: Aventine Press
Manufacturer: Aventine Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 148
Printing Date: July 18, 2007
Publishing house: Aventine Press
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The women who visit 221B Baker Street are more than storefront mannequins of their era. These ladies - whether love interests, femmes fatales, or independent career women - faithfully mirror the changes and challengers real women faced in the nearly half century during which the famous detective stories were published. This illuminating and entertaining anthology of original essays, poems, classic British music hall ditties, and insightful pockets of history examines topics ranging from libations to libido, perfumes to prejudice, in the context of the Sherlock Holmes stories. It will delight all explorers through the cultural landscape of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
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This new anthology fills the yawning empty space in the bookshelf awaiting articles dealing with Holmes and Watson from a feminist point of view. Fine ruminative pieces by Grant Eustace, ME Rich, Evelyn Herzog, and Philip Shreffler anchor the book. Informative articles by Patricia Guy, Enrico Solito, Catherine Cooke, and Joanne Zahorsky-Reeves offer new understanding of historical sidelights of special interest to women. All the essays manage to be weighty and spritely simultaneously, and weaving through the collection, perhaps to honor the Adventuresses' tendency to break into song, are a remarkable collection of original songs and poems and music hall standards. This is a delightful read whether curled in front of a crackling fire or sprawled before a blasting air conditioner.
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