classic supernatural fiction by groundbreaking female writers: 1852-1923
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Klinger, Leslie S. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Morton, Lisa > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Schreiner, Olive
- Contributor
- Perkins Gilman, Charlotte
- Contributor
- Austin, Mary
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 54 2020
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, horror, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Selected collection of supernatural stories by British female writers from the second half of the nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Some of the authors included in this volume are Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Olive Schreiner, Olivia Howard Dunbar and Mary Austin. Women at that time often wrote supernatural stories such as about spiritualism, cosmic horror and dark metaphors. They often introduced social commentary into their works, like the role of women and class struggles. Many women included in this book were involved in the suffragette or labor reform movement. As the work as a domestic was one of the few options for women from the lower classes, several stories were told from either the domestics in a wealthy household or the very poor viewpoint. Many of these women took up writing out of financial need and/or wrote under pseudonyms, using their married name or without any name.