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'Crime Lectures': File 13, 1994 - 2007

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP James 3/1/13

Scope and Contents

Women Detective Writers: typescripts of lectures broadly on this theme, delivered at various events, 1994-2007, as follows:
‘Manners and Murder: Women Detective Writers of the Thirties’, The South Bank Centre 26 March 1994 (pages 7-10 of 22 are missing);
‘Manners and Murder: Women Detective Writers as Social Historians, Talk to Somerville [College, Oxford] Lawyers’, 3 April 2001;
‘Manners and Murder: Women Detective Writers as Social Historians, The Margaret Howard Lecture, Trinity College, Oxford’, 15 May 2003;
‘The Detective Story as Social History, Oxford Literary Festival’, 26 March 2006;
‘Murder and Mystery: The Craft of the Detective Story, The Gomes Lecture, Emmanuel College, Cambridge’, 16 February 2007 (first page only, together with a nine page summary);
‘Manners and Murder: Women Detective Writers as Social Historians, St Hilda’s Crime Weekend’, 18 August 2007.





Dates

  • Creation: 1994 - 2007

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

P D James' agent will be informed of any usage of the collection. Please contact the archivist for more information.

Extent

1 file(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by P D James’ family December 2016.

Related Materials

See also GCPP James 3/16 for a published pamphlet containing the Margaret Howard Lecture.

Originator(s)

James, P D

Finding aid date

2017-05-11 14:18:29+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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