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Speaking of Rudyard Kipling and ghost stories, the anthology I’m reading at the moment includes a ghost story by Louisa Baldwin, Rudyard Kipling’s aunt! She was also the mother of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. How He Let the Hotel dates from 1895.
The anthology includes stories by quite a few of the many talented 19th century and early 20th century female practitioners of the art of the ghostly tale, the ghost story being a form that always seems to have appealed equally to male and female writers, and of curse male and readers.
Amelia B. Edwards contributed ghost stories to All the Year Round, the periodical edited by Charles Dickens (a great devotee if the ghost story). In the Confessional is a solid contribution to the genre. Margery Lawrence’s Robin’s Rath is not quite a ghost story, but it is about another world existing alongside our world, a world of the past and of wild places. Mrs J. H. Riddell’s 1882 story The Last of Squire Ennismore is one of those wicked nobleman stories that so delighted 19th century readers.
dfordoom)Speaking of Rudyard Kipling and ghost stories, the anthology I’m reading at the moment includes a ghost story by Louisa Baldwin, Rudyard Kipling’s aunt! She was also the mother of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. How He Let the Hotel dates from 1895.
The anthology includes stories by quite a few of the many talented 19th century and early 20th century female practitioners of the art of the ghostly tale, the ghost story being a form that always seems to have appealed equally to male and female writers, and of curse male and readers.
Amelia B. Edwards contributed ghost stories to All the Year Round, the periodical edited by Charles Dickens (a great devotee if the ghost story). In the Confessional is a solid contribution to the genre. Margery Lawrence’s Robin’s Rath is not quite a ghost story, but it is about another world existing alongside our world, a world of the past and of wild places. Mrs J. H. Riddell’s 1882 story The Last of Squire Ennismore is one of those wicked nobleman stories that so delighted 19th century readers.
