AGATHA CHRISTIE’S FEMALE VILLAINS
Keywords:
Agatha Christie, Christiean scholarship, female characters in detective fiction, inter-war period, female villains in crime fiction, working-class women, English fictionAbstract
With the approaching WWII, the tension and struggle women in Britain faced towards the end of the 1930s translated into the works of the English crime-writer, Agatha Christie, who revolutionized the nature of female villains in her novels, making them rounder and more realistic to reflect the lives of women during those times. This transformation particularly impacted her mother-figure and women as carer characters. This article aims to discuss these changes and the notions which stood behind them.
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