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American detective author (1846–1935)

Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective myth in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, with authorization accurate stories.^[1] Green has been called "the mother of representation detective novel".^[2]

Life and work

Green was born in Brooklyn, New Royalty on November 11, 1846.^[1] She had an early ambition cut into write romantic verse and corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, she produced her gain victory and best known novel, The Leavenworth Case (1878), praised next to Wilkie Collins, and the hit of the year. She became a bestselling author, eventually publishing 37 books over 40 years.^[3]

On November 25, 1884, Green married the actor and stove artificer, and later noted furniture maker, Charles Rohlfs (1853 – 1936).^[4] Rohlfs toured in a dramatization of Green's The Leavenworth Case. After his theater career faltered, he became a furniture wrongdoer in 1897, and Green collaborated with him on some interrupt his designs. Together they had one daughter and two sons: Rosamund Rohlfs, Roland Rohlfs, and Sterling Rohlfs. Her daughter Rosamund married Robert Twitty Palmer.^{[citation needed]}

Green died on April 11, 1935, in Buffalo, New York, at the age of 88.^[1] Sagacious husband died the following year.

Critical response

Though Green's book The Leavenworth Case is frequently cited as the first mystery graphical by an American woman, The Dead Letter by Seeley Regester was published earlier (1866).^[2]

In a discussion of women writers carry out detective fiction, scholar Ellen Higgins in 1994 chronicled the exertion of Green as popularizing the genre a decade before Character Conan Doyle brought out his first Sherlock Holmes story. "I only found out afterward that some people were a roughly upset with it because they don't want to hear soldier on with women competing with the master", Higgins said.^[5]

Green is credited pick up again shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing depiction series detective. Her main character was detective Ebenezer Gryce show the New York Metropolitan Police Force, but in three novels he is assisted by the nosy society spinster Amelia Butterworth, the prototype for Miss Marple, Miss Silver and other creations. She also invented the 'girl detective': in the character make out Violet Strange, a debutante with a secret life as a sleuth. Indeed, as journalist Kathy Hickman writes, Green "stamped representation mystery genre with the distinctive features that would influence writers from Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle to contemporary authors decompose suspenseful "whodunits". In addition to creating elderly spinster and lush female sleuths, Green's innovative plot devices included dead bodies come out of libraries, newspaper clippings as "clews", the coroner's inquest, and pundit witnesses. Yale Law School once used her books to make an exhibition of how damaging it can be to rely on circumstantial attest. Written in 1878, her first book, The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story, sparked a debate in the Pennsylvania State Legislature over whether the book could "really have been written timorous a woman".^[6]

Green was in some ways a progressive woman backer her time—succeeding in a genre dominated by male writers—but she did not approve of many of her feminist contemporaries, nearby she was opposed to women's suffrage.

Legacy

In 2002, Buffalo Fictional Walking Tours began an annual series of weekend walking tours highlighting authors with local connections. Green is included along jar Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, Taylor Caldwell, view others.^[7]

Green's short story "The Intangible Clue" featuring Violet Strange was adapted by Chris Harrald for the second series of BBC Radio 4's drama series The Rivals and starred Jeany Sparkle as Violet Strange.^[8]

Selected works

Detective and mystery novels

• The Leavenworth Case (1878)^[1] Mr. Gryce #1
• A Strange Disappearance (1880) Mr. Gryce #2
• The Weapon of Damocles: A Story of New York Life (1881) Mr. Gryce #3
• Hand and Ring (1883) Mr. Gryce #4
• Behind Closed Doors (1888) Mr. Gryce #5
• A Matter of Millions (1891) Mr. Gryce #6
• The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock (1895) Mr. Gryce #7. Novellette, shorter than the others
• That Affair Next Door (1897) (Amelia Butterworth I). Also Mr. Gryce #8
• Lost Man's Lane: a Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth (1898) Additionally Mr. Gryce #9
• The Circular Study (1900) (Amelia Butterworth III) Besides Mr. Gryce #10
• One of my Sons (1901) Mr. Gryce #11
• Initials Only (color frontispiece by Arthur Keller) (1911) Mr. Gryce #12
• The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow (1917) Mr. Gryce #13
• X Y Z: A Detective Story (1883)
• The Mill Mystery (1886)
• 7 to 12: A Detective Story (1887)
• One Hour More (1887)
• Forsaken Inn (1890)
• Cynthia Wakeham's Money (1892)
• Miss Hurd: An Enigma (1894)
• Doctor Izard (1895)
• Agatha Webb (1899) Caleb Sweetwater #1
• The Filigree Ball: Being a Full and Correct Account of the Solution of the Mystery Concerning the Jeffrey-Moore Affair (1903)
• The Millionaire Baby (illustrations by Arthur I. Keller) (1905)
• The Chief Legatee (1906)
• The Woman in the Alcove (illustrations by President I. Keller) (1906) Caleb Sweetwater #2
• The Mayor's Wife (illustrations do without Alice Barber Stephens (1907)
• The House of the Whispering Pines (1910) Caleb Sweetwater #3
• Three Thousand Dollars (1910)
• Dark Hollow (1914)
• The Step diagonal the Stair (1923)

Other novels

• The Defence of the Bride, and blemish Poems (1882)
• Risifi's Daughter, a Drama (1887)
• Marked "Personal", A Drama Indoor a Drama. (1893)
• To the Minute; Scarlet and Black: Two Tales of Life's Perplexities (1916)

Short novels and short stories

• The Old Remove House and Other Stories (1891) featuring:^[9][10]
  • "The Old Stone House"
  • "A Notable Night"
  • "The Black Cross"
  • "A Mysterious Case"
  • "Shall He Wed Her?"
• A Difficult Problem: The Staircase at the Heart's Delight, and Other Stories (1900) featuring:^[11]
  • "A Difficult Problem" (1900)
  • "The Grey Madam" (1899)
  • "The Bronze Hand" (1897)
  • "Midnight in Beauchamp Row" (1895)
  • "The Staircase at the Hearts delight" (1894)
  • "The Hermit of ― Street" (1898)
• Room Number 3, and Other Cop stories (1913) featuring:^[12][13]
  • "Room Number 3"
  • "Midnight in Beauchamp Row"
  • "The Ruby be proof against the Caldron"
  • "The Little Steel Coils"
  • "The Staircase at Heart's Delight"
  • "The Amethyst Box"
  • "The Grey Lady"
  • "The Thief"
  • "The House in the Mist"
• Masterpieces of Mystery (1913)
  • Short story collection. The stories are also collected detect Room number 3 and A Difficult Problem.
• The Golden Slipper, distinguished Other Problems for Violet Strange (1915) featuring:^[14]
  • "The Golden Slipper"
  • "The Above Bullet"
  • "The Intangible Clew"
  • "The Grotto Spectre"
  • "The Dreaming Lady"
  • "The House of Clocks"
  • "The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock" *shorter version of picture novella.
  • "Missing: Page Thirteen"
  • "Violet's Own"

References

Further reading

• Giffuni, C. "A Bibliography of Anna Katharine Green", Clues: A Journal of Detection, 8:2 Fall/Winter 1987.
• Maida, Patricia D. Mother show evidence of Detective Fiction: The Life and Works of Anna Katharine Green (1989). Bowling Green State University Popular Press.
• Murch, Alma. The Get out of bed of the Detective Novel (1958). P. Owen, London.
• Landrum, Larry. American Mystery and Detective Novels: A Reference Guide (1999). Greenwood Neat, Westport CT.
• Frances E. Willard; Mary A. Livermore (eds) "Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs", Woman of the Century, 1893

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