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Catherine Louisa Pirkis

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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The Experiences Of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective

by Catherine Louisa Pirkis First published in 1986 — 29 editions

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At the Moment of Victory; Volume 2

by Catherine Louisa Pirkis First published in 2018 — 3 editions

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The Voice of a People: Speeches from Black America

by Catherine Louisa Pirkis First published in 2021 — 3 editions

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At the moment of victory

by Catherine Louisa Pirkis First published in 1889 — 3 editions
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Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Forty Stories of Crime and Detection from Original Illustrated Magazines

by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, L. T. Meade, Clifford Halifax, Arthur Morrison, Grant Allen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Clarence Rook, Newton McFaul MacTavish, Robert Eustace, and 4 others First published in 1978 — 3 editions
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Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories

by Douglas G. Greene, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrison, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Rudyard Kipling, Headon Hill, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, George Robert Sims, R. Austin Freeman, and 8 others First published in 1997 — 3 editions
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Judith Wynne: A novel

by Catherine Louisa Pirkis First published in 1885 — 2 editions

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A red sister: a story of three days and three months

by Catherine Louisa Pirkis First published in 1891 — 2 editions
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A Dateless Bargain

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Jack, a mendicant

by Catherine Louisa Pirkis First published in 1901 — 1 edition
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In a world of his own

by Catherine Louisa Pirkis First published in 1878 — 1 edition
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All the year round: a weekly journal conducted by Charles Dickens : Saturday, December 18, 1886

by Charles Dickens and Catherine Louisa Pirkis First published in 1886 — 1 edition
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The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes

by David Stuart Davies, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Bret Harte, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Robert Barr, Антон Павлович Чехов, J. E. Preston Muddock, Grant Allen, and 10 others First published in 1998 — 1 edition
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OLID: OL7898427A
Wikidata: Q5052790
Inventaire.io: wd:Q5052790

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Alternative names

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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