Titlebook: Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930; Haunted Empire Melissa Edmundson Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

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Gothic Romance and Retribution in the Short Fiction of Isabella Valancy Crawford,etitive world of popular magazines, becoming one of the first Canadian women writers to make her career as an author, but she also was integral to the creation of a more progressive imagining of the Gothic heroine.

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,Generations of the Female Vampire: Colonial Gothic Hybridity in Florence Marryat’s ,ed to her earlier imagining of a biracial woman from the West Indies, Lola Arlington, the main character in Marryat’s . (1887). Both Harriet Brandt and Lola Arlington represent femme fatales who ultimately fall victim to the prejudice surrounding their racial pasts.

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,Fear and Death in the Outback: Barbara Baynton’s ,er mother’s home after a long absence. The suffering on the part of the daughter continues as she enters the mother’s home only to discover that her mother is dead. “The Chosen Vessel” is examined as an even more unflinching portrait of women as victims of both a hostile environment and men’s physical, verbal, and sexual violence.

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Katherine Mansfield and the Troubled Homes of Colonial New Zealand, the Store” (1912) and “Millie” (1913), Mansfield moves beyond the spectral to engage with issues of women’s isolation and loneliness in remote dwellings. These women become monstrous doubles of their former selves as they attempt to survive in houses that represent unfulfillment and the women’s distance from society.

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,Conclusion: “Cicatrice of an Old Wound”,h colonial writing and Gothic writing that provides a culturally vital link between white male authors of nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperialist literature and the more progressive multi-ethnic postcolonial authors of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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,Introduction: Reclaiming Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing,the broader regions which made up the British Empire from the mid-nineteenth century to the early decades of the twentieth. The chapter begins with an exploration of the major themes that recur in women’s Colonial Gothic. The chapter goes on to consider the critical history of women’s Gothic writing