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In 1853, the British humor magazine Punch published a cartoon showing policewomen fainting and cowering in the face of a riot. Women police wouldn't appear in Great Britain for over 40 years.
In literature, female detectives didn't fare any better. In the 1863 novel Eleanor's Victory the female protagonist found clues and deduced the crime more by accident than by design. The first fictional professional female detective was "Mrs. Gladden" in Revelations of a Lady Detective in 1864.
It would be over a century before women police officers would be considered equal to their male counterparts.