For those that sought their providers, there have been {many professional} feminine detectives in Britain within the Eighties and Nineties, and never simply in London – you could possibly discover them in Bristol, in Cardiff and in Glasgow, too. By January 1875 The Instances was promoting, back-to-back, the providers of the ‘Confidential Company’ of Leslie and Graham in Holborn, assisted by ‘males of 20 years’ expertise, and feminine detectives’, and Arthur Cleveland Montagu in Cornhill, which provided ‘a big employees of skilled detectives, female and male’. Ladies non-public detectives had been working for a while and their providers added worth to the companies that would boast them.
What sorts of instances have been these feminine detectives working? Once more, newspaper adverts supply very important clues. In 1881 Bristol’s Western Each day Mercury provided a ‘Non-public Inquiry Workplace for the West of England’, with:
MALE AND FEMALE DETECTIVES, Divorce, Libel and all Non-public Issues fastidiously investigated. Elections Watched. Prices Reasonable.
