Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide
Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide

Author: Vanessa D. Dickerson

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780826210814

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An interesting rereading of familiar texts by Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot recovering the historical and literary roots of the supernatural as it appears in each women's work. Dickerson (English, Rhodes College) makes interesting observations about women's changing roles in the 19th century when scientific advancements relegated women to the home as arbiters of the spiritual while men occupied themselves with "rational" invention. Through close readings, she demonstrates how the Brontes, Gaskell, and Eliot resisted this division and, simultaneously, created a spiritual genre of writing traditionally denigrated by critics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Ghost Stories by British and American Women
Ghost Stories by British and American Women

Author: Lynette Carpenter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-01-28

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1317943538

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Originally published in 1998 and covering a tradition ignored by most critics, this bibliography assembles and documents a large body of supernatural fiction written by women in English from the end of the 18th century to the present. These stories, the work of women whose literary reputations, personal histories, and bodies of work vary widely, challenge the narrow way in which supernatural literature has traditionally been regarded: they indicate a much richer and more complex set of literary responses to the supernatural than has been hitherto acknowledged. The writers included range from Ann Radcliffe and the Gothic novelists to Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Gilman, and Edith Wharton to such modern writers as Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Muriel Spark, and A.S. Byatt. The volume will be of interest to literary and cultural historians and of particular importance to women's studies scholars.

Jess
Jess

Author: Henry Rider Haggard

Publisher:

Published: 1887

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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A moment of Madness
A moment of Madness

Author: Florence Marryat

Publisher: LA CASE Books

Published: 2024-06-26

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13:

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According to the author's note, the stories are reprinted from Temple Bar, Belgravia, The East Anglia Holiday Annual, Judy's Annual, Dipose's Annual, The Editor's Box, and The Bolton Evening News. Contains the stories "A Moment of Madness," "Captain Norton's Diary," "Old Contrairy," "Sent to His Death!", "Lost in the Marshes," "Leopold-Ferdinand, Duc de Brabant," "The Invisible Tenants of Rushmere," "Amy's Lover," "Little White Souls," "Still Waters," "Chit-Chat from Andalusia," "The Secret of Economy," "Mother," "In the Heart of the Ardennes," "A Midsummer's Nightmare," and "The Ghost of Charlotte Cray."