The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories, by Emma Liggins

Ruth Heholt discovers how supernatural fiction is deeply revealing about changing attitudes to class and gender

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April 5, 2021

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April 6, 2021

Twitter: @RuthHeholt

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The ghost story has long given female writers a way to make the domestic terrifying

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