In conjunction with a
new exhibition on Women in Policing at the Prison & Police Museum in Ripon, UK, Solvig Choi
discusses early fictional female detectives: Mrs. Paschal in
Revelations of a Lady Detective (attributed to
William Stephens Hayward, 1864), Miss G in
The Female Detective (by Andrew Forrester, revealed by
Judith Flanders to be
J. Redding Ware, 1864), and
Mr. Bazalgette’s Agent by former actor
Leonard Merrick, 1888).
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