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Title: THE DARKER SEX
TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL AND MACABRE BY VICTORIAN WOMEN WRITERS
Format: Electronic book text

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ISBN 10: 0720614678
ISBN 13: 9780720614671
Publisher: PETER OWEN PUBLISHERS
Pub. date: 1 July, 2009
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Peter Owen Publishers
Returns: Non-returnable
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