Sisters of Gore
Subtitle: Seven Gothic Melodramas by British Women, 1790-1843
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 27, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780415928977
Subjects: Drama texts: 19th century; History of specific subjects; Plays & playwrights: 19th century; Theatre, drama; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Gothic & Romance; Women Authors; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Medieval
First sentence: Nothing is known about Miss Burke (or Mrs. Burke as she is called in The London Stage ) but her The Ward of the Castle is, perhaps, the first Gothic melodrama written by a woman.