When read straight through as a novel, Miss Cayley’s Adventures (1898-99) appears to reside singularly within the detective genre; this reading limits our understanding of the ways in which Grant Allen challenges the anxieties regarding gender held by the contemporary, conservative readership of The Strand Magazine (1891-1950). Allen integrates m…[Read more]

For a brief period before the rise in popularity of Sherlock Holmes and the serialized short story, The Strand Magazine (1891–1950) published a notable quantity of short stories in translation by authors from across continental Europe. The project of literary editor Herbert Greenhough Smith, these stories ‘from foreign sources’ received a l…[Read more]