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Queer Women in the Golden Age of Mysteries
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Oct 12, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
(Lucy and Elizabeth) From the early to mid-twentieth century, queens of crime Sayers, Christie, Marsh, and Wentworth reigned supreme over British detective fiction. Their works not only reveal whodunit but give insight into how queer women lived in and were viewed by wider society from capital to countryside.
Released:
Oct 12, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
The Origin of the Marathon: Linking Past to Present: (Esther) The story of the most popular long-distance event, from its origins in ancient literature to the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, and how a young farmer, Spyridon 'Spyros' Louis (1873-1940), became an unlikely national hero. by Footnoting History