Abstract
Though the figure of Sherlock Holmes has been revisited by many crime writers, not until Carole Nelson Douglas’s Good Night, Mr Holmes in 1990 was there a feminist re-vision of the canonical detective. Douglas’s series features Irene Adler, known to Holmes as the woman because she outwitted him in “A Scandal in Bohemia.” At the end of Doyle’s story, Adler and her attorney, Godfrey Norton, elude Holmes by eloping to the continent. Douglas adds Penelope Huxleigh, impecunious parson’s daughter, to serve as Irene’s amanuensis and social/intellectual foil; in short, as Irene’s Watson. The three central figures enjoy high-spirited adventures across Europe, and both Holmes and Watson make periodic appearances.KeywordsWoman WriterOriginal StoryHistorical FictionFeminist ProjectFeminist IntentThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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