British Women’s Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860–1930

Victoria Margree is Principal Lecturer in the Humanities, and Academic Programme Leader for the Humanities Programme at the University of Brighton, UK.

• Introduction: Our Own Ghostliness.- (Other)Worldly Goods: Ghost Fiction as Financial Writing in Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Riddell.-Neither Punishment nor Poetry: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Edith Nesbit and Female Death.- The Good Memsahib? Marriage, Infidelity and Empire in Alice Perrin’s Anglo-Indian Tales.- Haunted Modernity in the Uncanny Stories of May Sinclair, Eleanor Scott and Violet Hunt .- Conclusion.

“Readers are likely to be excited by the many fascinating stories that this book has brought back to life.” (Clare A. Simmons, Victorian Studies, Vol. 63 (4), 2021)“This challenging and polemical study will be essential reading for students and scholars of the Victorian ghost story, modernism and women’s writing.” (Emma Liggins, Women's Writing, October 4, 2021)