Pennies, Profits and Poverty: A Biographical Directory of Wealth and Want in Bohemian Fleet Street (rev.)

Dr. Lucy Sussex is an Honorary Fellow at Federation and La Trobe Universities. She has abiding interests in women’s lives, Australiana and crime fiction. She has edited four anthologies, including She’s Fantastical (1995), which was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. Her award-winning fiction includes the novel The Scarlet Rider (1996, reprint Ticonderoga 2015). She has five short story collections, and has edited the work of Ellen Davitt and Mary Fortune. Her Women Writers and Detectives in the Nineteenth Century (2012) examines the mothers of the mystery genre. Her Blockbuster!: Fergus Hume and The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (Text), won the 2015 Victorian Community History Award. She is a 2018 Creative Fellow at the State Library of Victoria.