If MF
is indeed the author of either The Stolen Specimens or Traces of Crime, then she is, Lucy Sussex
argues, the earliest known female writer of detective fiction. Both stories pre-date the serialization...
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1867: Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (a successful...
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1867
Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
(a successful American writer and publisher, as was her husband, Orville James Victor
) serialised under the pseudonym Seeley Regester her novel The Dead Letter.
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
under Orville James Victor
Nickerson, Catherine Ross, and Metta Victoria Fuller Victor. “Introduction”. The Dead Letter; and, The Figure Eight, Duke University Press, 2003, pp. 1-10.
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Texts
Nickerson, Catherine Ross, and Metta Victoria Fuller Victor. “Introduction”. The Dead Letter; and, The Figure Eight, Duke University Press, 2003, pp. 1-10.