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‘Dear Aunt Jane’: Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple and Jane Austen

2018
Readers have long wondered whether Agatha Christie’s keen-eyed, amateur spinster detective Miss Jane Marple was based, at least in part, upon Jane Austen. This chapter explores the common ground between Christie’s sleuth and Austen through consideration of Christie’s reading tastes, reading practices, and book ownership, as evident in both published ...
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Invitational Rhetoric And Gossip: A Feminist Rhetorical Reading Of Agatha Christie’s Jane Marple

The works of popular mystery writer Agatha Christie maintain the traditional nature of classic British mystery fiction. While seeming to adhere to the general conservatism of the genre in the first half of the twentieth century, some of Christie’s texts obliquely defy male dominance through rhetorical strategies aligned with women.
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