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PITHY QUOTE FROM Women's Sensation Fiction

I don’t like the plan of introducing you, my readers, to so many people, raising so many interests, as it were; but this temporary sojourn of Eleanor Seymour at the school was to bear its fruit, not pleasant fruit for Rose, and you must hear of it, for you would never understand her character so well otherwise: not if I wrote pages and pages.

Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction, 1855-1890. Volume 3, Gothic Sensationalism. St Martin’s Eve (1866), Vol. I.

Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction, 1855-1890. Electronic Edition.

ISBN: 978-1-57085-178-0

Language: English

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Mrs Henry Wood. Detail: The miniature by Reginald Easton taken from Memorials (1894)

List of Contents

Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction, 1855-1890. General editor, Andrew Maunder. Consulting editor, Sally Mitchell. 6 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2004.

Vol. 1. Sensationalism and the Sensation Debate. Edited by Andrew Maunder
Vol. 2. Domestic Sensationalism. Florence Marryat, Love's conflict (1865). Edited by Andrew Maunder
Vol. 3. Gothic Sensationalism. Ellen Wood, St Martin's eve (1866). Edited by Lyn Pykett
Vol. 4. Sensation With a Purpose. Felicia Skene, Hidden depths (1866). Edited by Lillian Nayder. Erotic sensationalism. Rhoda Broughton, Cometh Up as a Flower (1867). Edited by Tamar Heller
Vol. 5. Sensation and Detection. Mary Cecil Hay, Old Myddelton's money (1874). Edited by Mark Knight
Vol. 6. Newspaper Sensationalism. Dora Russell, Beneath the Wave (1878). Edited by Graham Law

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