Halloween Countdown 2024, Day 5

Another title very popular with women working in 19th-century mills in Lowell, Massachusetts was The Romance of the Forest (1791) by the mother of the Gothic, Ann Radcliffe.

Read it here.

Quote: “She saw herself surrounded by the darkness and stillness of night, in a strange place, far distant from any friends, going she scarcely knew whither, under the guidance of strangers, and pursued, perhaps, by an inveterate enemy.”

Vintage black and white illustration of woman in ruins fleeing a threatening figure in the distance.ALT
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Published on October 05, 2024 03:48
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