Thank you for this, Sue. Much as I adore Charlotte, her attempts to censor her sisters' works is puzzling. I'd love to cover your book about Anne Brontë on the main Literary Ladies Guide site. I can't tell from what you've written whether your book is out already, or if you just finished it. Either way, please keep me posted by contacting me via the site's contact form: https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/contact/
Love everything you listed, especially feminist gothic lit (though I'm embarrassed to say I haven't yet read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall or Parable of the Sower). One of these, next in my queu! There is something about reading gothic stories in high summer...can't quite put my finger on it.
Hi Cheryl — though both of these are great books, I'd say neither of them are gothics — Jane Eyre one might say has a touch of gothic, but The Tenant is realism at its best. And the Parable novels are dystopian, shading into speculative. Some of these uncanny stories by women, some of which you might find for free on Project Gutenberg, might be a bit closer to gothic: https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/literary-analyses/classic-uncanny-stories-by-british-women-writers/
Thank you for the redirect. And, I’m calling out my own (erroneous) inclination to automatically consider anything based in a hall to be gothic. I’ve been much steeped in Daphne du Maurier this year.
Having just written a book on Anne Brontë I felt I had to point out that it was because of Charlotte’s decisive action that The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was not published again after the first edition sold out. Like many critics of the book she said that the book was an entire mistake and out of character of her sister. Her action was partly responsible for Anne becoming the forgotten sister, unjustly lagging behind Emily and Charlotte. The full novel, with Anne’s uncompromising preface would not appear for many years
Thank you for this, Sue. Much as I adore Charlotte, her attempts to censor her sisters' works is puzzling. I'd love to cover your book about Anne Brontë on the main Literary Ladies Guide site. I can't tell from what you've written whether your book is out already, or if you just finished it. Either way, please keep me posted by contacting me via the site's contact form: https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/contact/
Love everything you listed, especially feminist gothic lit (though I'm embarrassed to say I haven't yet read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall or Parable of the Sower). One of these, next in my queu! There is something about reading gothic stories in high summer...can't quite put my finger on it.
Hi Cheryl — though both of these are great books, I'd say neither of them are gothics — Jane Eyre one might say has a touch of gothic, but The Tenant is realism at its best. And the Parable novels are dystopian, shading into speculative. Some of these uncanny stories by women, some of which you might find for free on Project Gutenberg, might be a bit closer to gothic: https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/literary-analyses/classic-uncanny-stories-by-british-women-writers/
Thank you for the redirect. And, I’m calling out my own (erroneous) inclination to automatically consider anything based in a hall to be gothic. I’ve been much steeped in Daphne du Maurier this year.
She's fantastic — I can never have too much du Maurier!
Having just written a book on Anne Brontë I felt I had to point out that it was because of Charlotte’s decisive action that The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was not published again after the first edition sold out. Like many critics of the book she said that the book was an entire mistake and out of character of her sister. Her action was partly responsible for Anne becoming the forgotten sister, unjustly lagging behind Emily and Charlotte. The full novel, with Anne’s uncompromising preface would not appear for many years