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| Battles between puritans and earlier colonial group (1650s) |
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| (1686) "A True History of Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary"-- Prisoner, family killed, carries baby through 150 miles of mountains |
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| Women are being classified as the victime and the men as the rescuer |
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| Hannah Webster Foster "The Coquette" |
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| (1797) First novelist maybe, definitely first female novelist. Wrote cautionary tales |
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| Anne Radcliffe "The Mysteries of Udolpho" |
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| (1794) Gothic Novels in England |
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| Nellie Bly "Ten Days in a Mad-House" |
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| (1887) She pretended to be insane. |
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| Anna Katherine Green "The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story" |
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| 10 years beore Sherlock. First Female Fetective- Amelia Butterworth (50s widow) legal drama |
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| Agatha Christe "Murder on the Orient Express" |
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| (1934) Puzzle Mystery Novels. Cozy 16th century women solving cases wit a cat. |
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| Texas (1924) "Serious" literary stuff |
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| Flannery O'Conner "Wise Blood" (1952) |
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| Gothic Novels Famous. Preacher who kills someone. Another where a family is slaughtered. |
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(1938) Miller's Port NY "Expensive People"
Relationships |
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Nancy Drew (1930) Corporate Author, not a real person.
Nancy Drew is first detective. |
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| "Girl for Hire" (1957) first hard boiled female detective with male subordinate |
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"Edwin of the Iron Shoes" (1977)
Sharon Macomb (Firs hard boiled private eye)- like Sam Spade. |
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| Indemnity Only (1982) Chandler Dialogue. Feminist rights. |
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| "A is for Alibi" (1982) More realistic, sociological issues, trouble w/ authority |
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| Anne Rule "The Stranger Beside Me" |
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| Christa Faust "Money Shot" |
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| (2007) Post Feminist writers. Former dominatrix. |
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| Megan Abbott "Die a Little" |
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| (2006) Female perspective like Cain. Femme Fatale. |
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