Sisters of Gore
Subtitle: Seven Gothic Melodramas by British Women, 1790-1843 (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780815317814
Subjects: Modern fiction; Novels, other prose & writers; Horror tales, English; Horror Fiction; Women As Authors (English Literature); Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Women Authors; Gothic & Romance; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; English fiction; Gothic revival (Literature); Great Britain
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.