Retired UNE lecturer Alison Hoddinott talks about "Women, Oxford, and Novels of Crime"

By Nicholas Fuller
Updated April 26 2018 - 2:12pm, first published April 23 2018 - 5:20pm
Blood and bluestockings: UNE academic writes about Oxford, women, and crime
Blood and bluestockings: UNE academic writes about Oxford, women, and crime

Detective fiction, blurbs trumpeted, were the favorite reading of university professors. Oxford dons may have delighted in the intricate problems of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, but they were less keen on letting women into the university’s hallowed precincts – as retired UNE academic Alison Hoddinott writes in her new book, Women, Oxford & Novels of Crime.

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