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The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective with Sarah Lodge

History Hack by Alex Churchill, Matt Bone

Jan 7, 202617:44Society & Culture

Sherlock Holmes dominates the thoughts of the Victorian detective; in her Wolfson History Prize shortlist book, Sarah Lodge brings to life the real women who brought justice to Victorian streets and in the fiction of the...

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