| 词条 | Anna Katharine Green |
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| name =Anna Katharine Green | image =Anna Katherine Green.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1846|11|11}} | birth_place =Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1935|4|11|1846|11|11}} | death_place =Buffalo, New York, U.S. | genres = poetry, detective fiction | spouse = Charles Rohlfs }}Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 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.[1] Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel".[1] Life and workShe was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 11, 1846.[1] Green had an early ambition 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), praised by Wilkie Collins, and the hit of the year. She became a bestselling author, eventually publishing about 40 books. On November 25, 1884, Green married the actor and stove designer, and later noted furniture maker, Charles Rohlfs (1853 – 1936), who was seven years her junior.[2] Rohlfs toured in a dramatization of Green's The Leavenworth Case. After his theater career faltered, he became a furniture maker in 1897, and Green collaborated with him on some of his designs. Together they had one daughter and two sons: Rosamund Rohlfs, Roland Rohlfs, and Sterling Rohlfs. Her daughter Rosamund married Robert Twitty Palmer. Green died on April 11, 1935 in Buffalo, New York, at the age of 88.[3] Critical responseThough Green's book The Leavenworth Case is frequently cited as the first mystery written by an American woman, The Dead Letter by Seeley Regester was published earlier (1866).[1] In a discussion of women writers of detective fiction, scholar Ellen Higgins in 1994 chronicled the work of Green as popularizing the genre a decade before Arthur Conan Doyle brought out his first Sherlock Holmes story. "I only found out afterward that some people were a little upset with it because they don't want to hear about women competing with the master", Higgins said.[4] Green is credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the series detective. Her main character was detective Ebenezer Gryce of the New York Metropolitan Police Force, but in three novels he is assisted by the nosy society spinster Amelia Butterworth, the prototype for Miss Marple, Miss Silver and other creations. She also invented the 'girl detective': in the character of Violet Strange, a debutante with a secret life as a sleuth. Indeed, as journalist Kathy Hickman writes, Green "stamped the mystery genre with the distinctive features that would influence writers from Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle to contemporary authors of suspenseful "whodunits". In addition to creating elderly spinster and young female sleuths, Green's innovative plot devices included dead bodies in libraries, newspaper clippings as "clews", the coroner's inquest, and expert witnesses. Yale Law School once used her books to demonstrate how damaging it can be to rely on circumstantial evidence. Written in 1878, her first book, The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story, sparked a debate in the Pennsylvania State Senate over whether the book could "really have been written by a woman".[5] Green 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. LegacyIn 2002, Buffalo Literary Walking Tours began an annual series of weekend walking tours highlighting authors with local connections. Green is included along with Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, Taylor Caldwell, and others.[6] An adaptation of Green's short story "The Intangible Clue" featuring Violet Strange was adapted by Chris Harrald for the second series of BBC Radio 4's drama series The Rivals and starred Jeany Spark as Violet Strange.[7] Selected works{{Library resources box|by=yes|onlinebooksby=yes|viaf=69054865}}DETECTIVE AND MYSTERY NOVELSMR. GRYCE AND AMELIA BUTTERWORTH SERIES
OTHER MYSTERIES
References1. ^1 {{cite news |last= Penzler |first= Otto |authorlink= Otto Penzler |title= A Deadly Month |work= The New York Sun |location= New York |publisher= Ronald Weintraub |date= November 16, 2005|url= |quote= [Green] is frequently, inaccurately, described as the mother of the detective novel by virtue of having written The Leavenworth Case, which is said to be the first mystery written by an American woman. But the honor rightfully belongs to Seeley Regester [1831-1885], with her 1866 novel The Dead Letter.}} 2. ^{{cite news| work=The New York Times | date= July 1, 1936 | url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/07/01/87955749.pdf |title= Charles Rohlfs, Designer, is Dead |quote=Manufacturer, 83, Is Credited With Having Originated Mission Furniture. Began Career on Stage. Starred in Mystery Drama Taken From Novel by Wife Anna Katharine Green }} 3. ^1 2 3 {{cite book |author= |title=A. K. Green Dies |date=April 12, 1935 |newspaper=The New York Times |page= |quote=Noted Author, 88. 'The Leavenworth Case' in '78 Followed by 36 Other Books. Wife of Charles Rohlfs. Wanted to Write Poetry. Wrote Detective Stories to Draw Attention to Her Verse. Changed Mystery Fiction | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/04/12/110044195.pdf |isbn= }} 4. ^{{cite news |last= Grondahl |first= Paul |title= Secret to longevity? Elementary, for Holmes while the Master happily tends bees in the Sussex countryside, his fans each January 6 fete him on his birthday|work= The Times Union |location= Colonie, New York |publisher= George Randolph Hearst III |date= January 15, 1995|url= http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_product=AWNB&p_theme=aggregated5&p_action=doc&p_docid=0FB5F01E4F4C41D5&p_docnum=2&p_queryname=1 |accessdate= January 8, 2013}} 5. ^{{cite news |last= Hickman |first= Kathy |title= Sisters in Crime hit Local Library |work= The Sun Chronicle |location= Attleboro, Massachusetts |publisher= Oreste P. D'Arconte |date= November 25, 2006 |url=}} 6. ^{{cite news |last= |first= |title= Travel |work= The Daily News (Batavia) |location= Batavia, New York |publisher= Johnson Newspaper Corporation |date= July 14, 2004 |url= |page= 8A}} 7. ^{{Cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03brnrj | title=BBC Radio 4 - the Rivals, Series 2, the Intangible Clue}} Further reading
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