| The Chief Legatee: Illustrated Contributor(s): Merrill, Frank T. (Illustrator), Green, Anna Katharine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1974310507 ISBN-13: 9781974310500 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.55 lbs) 180 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories (no doubt assisted by her lawyer father). Born in Brooklyn, New York, her early ambition was to write romantic verse, and she corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, she produced her first and best known novel, The Leavenworth Case (1878). She became a bestselling author, eventually publishing about 40 books. She was in some ways a progressive woman for her time-succeeding in a genre dominated by male writers-but she did not approve of many of her feminist contemporaries, and she was opposed to women's suffrage. |