Professor
Dagni Bredesen is a professor of English and affiliate faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Eastern Illinois University. Her research on Victorian widowhood and on nineteenth-century female detectives has been published as journal articles and in essay collections. She has edited a volume for Scholar’s Facsimiles and Reprints comprising two 1864 yellowbacks, the first works in British fiction to feature professional women detectives—The Female Detective and Revelations of a Lady Detective—published in (2010), and is writing a monograph Detecting a Profession for Victorian Women.
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About Dagni A. Bredesen
Dagni Bredesen is a professor of English and affiliate faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Eastern Illinois University. Her research on Victorian widowhood and on nineteenth-century female detectives has been published as journal articles and in essay collections. She has edited a volume for Scholar’s Facsimiles and Reprints comprising two 1864 yellowbacks, the first works in British fiction to feature professional women detectives—The Female Detective and Revelations of a Lady Detective—published in (2010), and is writing a monograph Detecting a Profession for Victorian Women.