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Ladies of Ink
and Shadow.
A treasury of British women's short fiction
Ghosts, unsettling rooms, hidden histories and the darker reaches of the imagination. A collection of Gothic and uncanny fiction by British women writers, edited by Ellis York.
The collection
The familiar world, made strange.
Not every haunting announces itself. Some begin with an ordinary room, a remembered face or a sound in an empty house.
In this anthology, British women writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries explore what lies beneath respectable appearances: old grievances, restless memories, supernatural visitations and the disquieting possibility that everyday reality is not quite what it seems.
Edited by Ellis York, Ladies of Ink and Shadow brings together atmospheric short fiction from established names and writers deserving renewed attention. The selection spans ghost stories, Gothic fiction and psychological unease, and is presented with an emphasis on readability while retaining the character of the original works.
For readers of classic Gothic literature, women's writing, and unsettling stories that linger after the final page.
Among the contributors
Six distinctive literary voices.
The collection includes writing by these authors, from pioneering Gothic storytellers to later practitioners of the uncanny.
Elizabeth Gaskell
E. Nesbit
Mary Shelley
Margaret Oliphant
Rhoda Broughton
Ella D'Arcy
Bibliographic information
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Paperback
- Title
- Ladies of Ink and Shadow
- Subtitle
- An anthology of British women's Gothic fiction
- Editor
- Ellis York
- Publisher
- Chartley Books
- Publication
- 9 April 2025
- ISBN-13
- 9781917621069
- Extent
- 314 pages*
- Language
- English
- Format
- Paperback
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Hardback
- Title
- Ladies of Ink and Shadow
- Editor
- Ellis York
- Publisher
- Chartley Books
- ISBN in production file
- 9781917621038
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication / availability
- Please enquire
- Extent and RRP
- To be confirmed
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