An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: P. D. James
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Detective and mystery
- Time of Work: The 1970’sThe 1970’s
- Setting: London and Cambridge, England
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: 1970’s, Suicide, Murder or homicide, Gender roles, Mistaken or secret identity, Science or scientists, England or English people, Feminism, Detectives, London, Colleges or universities
- Locales: London, England, Cambridge, England
Characters Discussed
Cordelia Gray, the protagonist, a twenty- one-year-old detective on her first case. She inherited Pryde’s Detective Agency when her senior partner, Bernie Pryde, committed suicide. Reared in a succession of foster homes and a convent until her father, an itinerant Marxist poet, called her to leave school and assist him as a party organizer, Cordelia has become an extremely self-reliant young woman, accustomed to making her own way in the world. Ironically, this case takes her to Cambridge, the university she was preparing to attend when her father took...
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