Elizabeth Jenkins

perhaps the history woman

Ian MacKillop

pp. 225-236

in: Clive Bloom (ed), Twentieth-century suspense, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1990

Abstract

Think of a novelist who scrutinised a closet crime in an early novel, the undiscovered imprisonment of a young woman. Think of a writer who went on in maturity to a study of Victorian sexual tyranny, in a novel published about twenty years ago.