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The darker sex : tales of the supernatural and macabre by Victorian women writers / edited by Mike Ashley.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American--History and criticism.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American.
- Literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Chester Springs, Pa. : Peter Owen ; Chester Springs, Pa. : Distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ghosts, precognition, suicide, and the afterlife are all themes in these thrilling stories by Britain and America's greatest Victorian women, proving their talent for creating dark, sensational, and horrifying tales of the supernatural. This anthology showcases some of the best and most representative work by female writers during this period, including Emily Bronte, Mary Braddon, George Eliot, and Edith Nesbit, as well as Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Riddell, Louisa Baldwin, Mary Penn, Violet Quirk, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Editor Mike Ashley provides valuable insight into the authors' lives. Each story still has the ability to shock, frighten, and show how Victorian women perfected and developed the Gothic genre.
- Contents:
- The palace of death / Emily Bronte
- The old nurse's story / Elizabeth Gaskell
- The shadow in the corner / Mary E. braddon
- Nut Bush Farm / Charlotte Riddell
- The tenant of the cedars / Mary E. Penn
- Sir Nigel Otterburne's case / Louisa Baldwin
- Luella Miller / Mary Wilkins Freeman
- The three kisses / Violet Quirk
- The third drug / Edith Nesbit
- The lifted veil / George Eliot
- The presence / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780720614381
- 0720614384
- 9780720614671
- 0720614678
- OCLC:
- 809539189
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