Kate Warne: Female Intelligence Agent

Kate Warne: Female Intelligence Agent

The Civil War Intelligence Work As discussed previously, along with her distinction of being the first female detective for the Pinkerton Agency, Kate Warne did intelligence work during the Civil War. As a woman, she could easily attend social gatherings and worm...
Kate Warne: Female Detective for the Pinkerton Agency

Kate Warne: Female Detective for the Pinkerton Agency

The Baltimore Plot (Cont.) To pick up from where I left off in the first part of Kate Warne’s story (the story of the first female Pinkerton detective), Warne was tasked with keeping Abraham Lincoln safe from would-be assassins in Baltimore. The plan was to create a...
Kate Warne: First Female Detective

Kate Warne: First Female Detective

While hard-boiled female detectives may seem to be a recent development (at least in fiction), they really aren’t in reality. In fact, the first female detective in the United States was Kate Warne, who worked at the Pinkerton Detective Agency in the 1800s (the...

My Weekend at ScriptDC!

This past weekend, I went to a most awesome film conference, ScriptDC, put on by Women in Film & Video, DC! Among other things, I got to see an interview with Golan Ramras, an award-winning writer/producer. I got to meet all sorts of great people! I even had my...

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