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Gwendoline Butler
AuthorBooks · Second hand1922-2013
Gwendoline Williams Butler was a British writer of mystery fiction and romance novels. She also wrote under the pseudonym Jennie Melville. Credited with inventing the "woman's police procedural," Butler is known for the Inspector John Coffin series and the Charmian Daniels series. Her works include modern detective stories, Victorian mysteries, Gothic tales, and romantic novels.
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Birth
1922
Death
2013
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Gwendoline Butler was born in Blackheath, London, and came from a family of writers, including her twin brothers.
She studied history at the prestigious Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she later worked as a lecturer.
She is credited with being a pioneer in creating the female police officer character in detective fiction.
She used the pseudonym Jennie Melville to publish her popular series of novels featuring Charmian Daniels.
Throughout her prolific career, she wrote a total of 154 works, focusing primarily on mystery and life in England.