Ten Little Indians | Agatha Christie—Feminist
In the following excerpt, Knepper presents an
overview of feminism in Christie’s writing, including
Ten Little Indians.
To a greater or lesser degree, detective fiction writers Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey, P. D. James, Amanda Cross, and Anna Katherine Green can be considered feminist writers. But what about the “Mistress of Mystery,” Agatha Christie, whose books, written between the years 1920 and 1973, have sold over five hundred million copies and have been translated into dozens of languages? Is Christie a feminist or anti-feminist writer, or do her works fall somewhere in between, in some middle ground?
Obviously, evaluating an author as feminist or anti-feminist involves making...
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