The Diamonds of the Princess
By Cottrel Hoe and John Betancourt
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The second of Cottrel Hoe's tales of Jennie Baxter, a Victorial journalist-sleuth, a character in the tradition of Violet Strange and Amelia Butterworth. Includes an introduction by John Betancourt.
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Table of Contents
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
INTRODUCTION
THE DIAMONDS OF THE PRINCESS
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
Edited text copyright © 2021 by Wildside Press LLC.
Introduction © 2021 by John Betancourt.
Originally published in The Windsor Magazine (1898).
Published by Wildside Press LLC.
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INTRODUCTION
A woman reporter in Victorian England? Who solves mysteries? Scandalous! But I want to read more…
That’s what I imagine readers said in January, 1898, when the Jennie Baxter series by Cottrel Hoe debuted in the British publication, The Windsor Magazine. Jennie went on to have 8 more adventures.
The Windsor Magazine was a monthly illustrated publication produced by Ward Lock & Co from January 1895 to September 1939. It ran for a total of 537 issues. To cash in on the popularity of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mysteries (and Sherlock’s friends and rivals) in The Strand, The Windsor Magazine began to publish its own mysery series, including the adventures of Jennie Baxter. She gets her start in journalism in the first installment, "The Daily Bugle Misses ‘A Hit’" (it’s a pun—get it?) and goes on to tackle a series of puzzling cases that only a woman with pluck—and the backing of a major newspaper—could solve.
It may seem odd that Sherlock Holmes would spawn a rival series with a female protagonist—but as any writer will tell you, you need an interesting hook to sell a series, and would could be more interesting than reversing traditional gender roles? There is also precedent for women detectives in Victorian literature going back to Wilkie Collins’ The Diary of Anne Rodway (1856) and Revelations of a Lady Detective, by W.S. Hayward (1868). Other women sleuths of the era include Anna Katherine Green’s Amelia Butterworth mysteries (1897-1901), as well as her series of short stories featuring Violet Strange, the first ‘girl detective’ (collected in 1915); and M. McDonnell Bodkin published Dora Myrl: Lady Detective in 1900 (and later married her off to his other detective, Paul Beck!) And there are numerous short stories in British magazines like The Strand.
As for the Jennie Baxter author, Cottrel Hoe
—I suspect he or she is hidden behind a pseudonym. I could find no publicaitons under this rather unusual byline before or after the Jennie Baxter series in the indexes I consulted. Indeed, it’s so usual, it seems made up…perhaps an anagram? Or something else? I have been unable to solve the puzzle, so I will leave it