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Catherine Louisa Pirkis

1839 - 1910

Catherine Louisa Pirkis was born in London, the daughter of Lewis Stephens Lyne, an accountant and comptroller-general of Inland Revenue. In 1872, at the age of 33, Pirkis married Frederick Edward Pirkis, fleet-paymaster for the Royal Navy, and the couple moved often. They had a daughter (born 1874 in Surrey) and a son (born 1876 in Belgium). Pirkis wrote her first novel, Disappeared from Her Home, in 1877; the mystery novel portends her creation of the popular lady detective Loveday Brooke in the 1890s. Thereafter she became a prolific novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Pirkis and her husband actively worked in the anti-vivisectionist movement and in organizations for the protection of animals, such as The National Canine Defense League. Pirkis died in 1910 after a long illness.
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Subjects
English literature, English Detective and mystery stories, American literature, Detective and mystery stories, Short stories, American Detective and mystery stories, British and irish fiction, Brooke, loveday (fictitious character), fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories, English, England, fiction, English Mastiffs, English short stories, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Loveday Brooke (Fictitious character), Periodicals, Vivisection, Women detectives, anthology, brain fever, darkrooms, electric blue, governesses
Places
Copper Beeches, England, Hampshire, Winchester
People
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Alice Rucastle, Jephro Rucastle, John H. Watson, Mr. Toller, Mrs. Toller, Sherlock Holmes, Violet Hunter
Time
1800s, 1900s, 19th century

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  • Catherine L. Pirkis
  • Catherine Louisa Pirkis
  • Mrs. F. E. Pirkis
  • Catharine Louisa Pirkis
  • C. L. Pirkis
  • Catherine Lousia Pirkis
  • Catherine Pirkis
  • Louisa Catherine Pirkis

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