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Women writers established a new ghost story subgenre at the turn of the twentieth century, while in recent years there has been an increasing interest in uncanny tales by women, by both scholars and readers of the Gothic. In the context of this renewed interest and research, this chapter presents one more aspect of late-Victorian Gothic fiction, by discussing realist ghost stories by female authors of that period, which focused on the themes of marriage, motherhood and domesticity.
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Giakaniki, M. (2021). Haunted Domesticity in Late-Victorian Women’s Writing. In: Bloom, C. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40866-4_17
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