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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Susanna Moodie, Colonial Exiles, and the Frontier Canadian Gothic,). An unwilling émigré to Canada, Moodie portrays frontier settlements as unsafe spaces, full of danger and disease. Throughout her memoir and short story, families are threatened by wild animals and an unforgiving landscape. The chapter also discusses Moodie’s involvement with the Spiritualist move

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Gothic Romance and Retribution in the Short Fiction of Isabella Valancy Crawford, gain more autonomy and greater freedom than their late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literary forbears. The chapter examines two early stories by Crawford, “The Perfect Number Seven” (1880) and “Sèvres Fulkes” (1885), as well as two of her final stories which are set in distinctly Canadi

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Mary Kingsley and the Ghosts of West Africa, before moving on to extended discussions of two lesser-known essays by Kingsley: “Black Ghosts” (1896) and “The Forms of Apparitions in West Africa” (1899). In these essays, Kingsley seeks to convince her British reading audience that the spiritual beliefs of Africans and Europeans have much in com

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Colonial Gothic Framework: Haunted Houses in the Anglo-Indian Ghost Stories of Bithia Mary Croker,al of her ghost stories in colonial India, and frequently uses haunted structures such as Indian palaces and Anglo-Indian bungalows as specific places of trauma and haunting. In “If You See Her Face” (1893), Croker explores the traditional figure of the nautch girl, a professional dancer who enterta

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The Past Will Not Stay Buried: Female Bodies and Colonial Crime in the Australian Ghost Stories of e course of several decades, Fortune contributed numerous stories to the . under the pseudonym “Waif Wander.” This chapter builds on previous discussions of Fortune as a detective story writer to consider how she appropriated the Colonial Gothic through examinations of violent crimes against colonia

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,Fear and Death in the Outback: Barbara Baynton’s ,ontribute to a Colonial Gothic tradition which foregrounds women’s tenuous existence in a harsh colonial environment. The chapter begins with an overview of Baynton’s early life in the Australian bush, which influenced her later fiction. It then moves on to a discussion of Baynton’s experience publi

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