Name: Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose: A Victorian Nurse Detective in a Medical Murder Mystery of Science, Revenge, and Female Agency (en Inglés)
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ISBN: 9788028340032

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Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose: A Victorian Nurse Detective in a Medical Murder Mystery of Science, Revenge, and Female Agency (en Inglés)

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Sharp Ink

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Inglés

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Tapa Blanda

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22.9x15.2x0.7 cm

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9788028340032

Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose: A Victorian Nurse Detective in a Medical Murder Mystery of Science, Revenge, and Female Agency (en Inglés)

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Grant Allen's Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose is a late-Victorian medico-detective romance centred on an exceptionally intelligent nurse whose pursuit of justice is both personal and moral. Narrated by Dr. Hubert Cumberledge, the novel moves through hospitals, colonial spaces, and fashionable society, combining clinical observation with melodramatic suspense. Its lucid, energetic prose belongs to the fin-de-sicle world of sensation fiction, scientific romance, and the emerging detective story, while Hilda herself embodies the "New Woman" as rational, mobile, and professionally competent. Allen, a Canadian-born writer, popular scientist, and committed Darwinian, repeatedly turned fiction into a vehicle for debates about evolution, heredity, gender, and social reform. His controversial novel The Woman Who Did had already established his interest in women's autonomy, and Hilda Wade extends that concern into the domains of medicine and crime. The book was left unfinished at Allen's death and completed by Arthur Conan Doyle, a fitting collaborator given its medical and investigative cast. This novel is recommended to readers interested in Victorian detective fiction, feminist literary history, and the intersection of science and narrative. It offers not only an absorbing plot of pursuit and revelation, but also a striking portrait of female agency at the threshold of modernity.

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