Scene from The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve

Reading: From Nineteenth-Century Stories by Women:
Alcott's "A Whisper in the Dark" (PDF),
Braddon's "Good Lady Ducayne" (PDF),
Gaskell's "The Old Nurse's Story" (PDF),
Lee's "Dionea" (PDF/can't print) and
Shelley's "The Parvenue" (PDF).

On-line:
Barbauld's "On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror, with Sir Bertrand, A Fragment," and
Eliot's "The Lifted Veil."

Also have a look at Curtis's "The Unknown" (PDF/can't print),
Gore's "The Red Man" (PDF/can't print),
Landon's "The Bride of Lindorf," and
Wilkinson's "The Mysterious Novice" (PDF/can't print) and "The Spectre" (PDF/can't print).

And at least glance at Tales of Superstition and Chivalry by Anne Bannerman.

Presentation(s): Amanda on Louisa May Allcott; Mark on Elizabeth Gaskell.

Deadline: Web pages should be up before the beginning of class.

Links/e-texts:

Anne Bannerman.
Anna Lætitia Barbauld.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
Catherine Gore (and here, and here).
Vernon Lee.
Ann Radcliffe.
Sarah Wilkinson.
"Writing for the Spectre of Poverty: Exhuming Sarah Wilkinson’s Bluebooks and Novels" by Franz Potter.