The Darker Sex: Tales of the Supernatural and Macabre by Victorian Women Writers (2009) by Mike Ashley (ed. Sun77)
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Overview: Ghosts, precognition, suicide and the afterlife are all themes to be found in these thrilling stories by some of the greatest Victorian women writers from both Britain and the USA. Horace Walpole may have started the Gothic-fiction movement, but it was three women who popularized it –Clara Reeve, Mary Shelley and Anne Radcliffe. Victorian women proved they had a talent for creating dark, sensational and horrifying tales of the supernatural, and this anthology showcases some of the best and most representative work by female writers of the time, including Emily Brontë, 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 and contextualizes each story –every one of which still has the ability to shock and frighten –and shows how Victorian women perfected and developed the Gothic genre.
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
Content
Introduction
Emily Brontë – The Palace of Death
Elizabeth Gaskell – The Old Nurse’s Story
Mary E. Braddon – The Shadow in the Corner
Charlotte Riddell – Nut Bush Farm
Mary E. Penn – The Tenant of The Cedars
Louisa Baldwin – Sir Nigel Otterburne’s Case
Mary Wilkins Freeman – Luella Miller
Violet Quirk – The Three Kisses
Edith Nesbit – The Third Drug
George Eliot – The Lifted Veil
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps – The Presence
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