“The female novelist of the nineteenth century may have frequently encountered opposition and interference from the male literary establishment, but the femal

Nineteenth-century ghost literature by women shows the Gothic becoming more experimental and subversive as its writers abandoned the stereotypical Gothic heroin

Providing an overview of the history of writing by women in the period, this 2001 Companion establishes the context in which this writing emerged, and traces th

From the Publisher: A new mother longing to write is judged "hysterical" and confined to her bedroom where she slowly loses herself in horrific fantasy. A young