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Book The Ghost of Winthrop

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katherine Hall Page
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993-08
  • ISBN : 9780922242559
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Ghost of Winthrop written by Katherine Hall Page and published by . This book was released on 1993-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Real life Stories of Supernatural Experiences

Download or read book Real life Stories of Supernatural Experiences written by Michael Norman and published by Atriad Press LLC. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected writings dealing with supernatural encounters or experiences.

Book The Ghosts of Winthrop Manor

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  • Author : Lindy Michaels
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-10-21
  • ISBN : 9780692552643
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book The Ghosts of Winthrop Manor written by Lindy Michaels and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three couples from different decades, married and unfortunately, years later, died at the great Winthrop Manor. More unfortunately, these six folks never worked out their marital woes, while living. In the purgatory of the Manor they find themselves, what else can they do but bicker, complain and of course... haunt the place, the consequences of which are devastating, considering it is now a wedding site and our rather inept ghosts don't think anyone should be married, period! When two marriage therapists want to say their vows there, they too are tripped, smacked around and have pillows thrown at them. Could the place really be haunted? After some internet searching, they decide to try and contact the ghosts to see if they can help them work out their wedded suffering and finally release them into a happy eternity, not to mention, save the great Winthrop Manor from bankruptcy. Welcome to Beetlejuice Meets Analyze This!

Book Women s Ghost Literature in Nineteenth Century Britain

Download or read book Women s Ghost Literature in Nineteenth Century Britain written by Melissa Edmundson Makala and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain examines the Female Gothic genre and how it expanded to include not only gender concerns but also social critiques of repressed sexuality, economics and imperialism.

Book The Secret at the Winthrop House

Download or read book The Secret at the Winthrop House written by Joanne D. Saunders and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years have passed since the O'Donnells moved into the Winthrop Estate and encountered their ghostly relatives who showed them the secrets of an heirloom mirror left behind in the home. In this third book of the series, more secrets unfold and hidden treasures are revealed as the O'Donnells and Winthrops continue their adventures from past to present.

Book Haunted Colleges   Universities of Massachusetts

Download or read book Haunted Colleges Universities of Massachusetts written by Renee Mallett and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get an education in ghostly history—and meet the spirits that haunt schools in Boston and beyond. Includes photos! Among the throngs of students attending colleges and universities across the state of Massachusetts linger the apparitions of those who met their untimely ends on campus grounds. In 1953, Eugene O’Neill, an Irish American playwright, died in room 401 of the Sheraton Hotel—today a Boston University dormitory. Named Writer’s Corridor in O’Neill’s honor, the fourth floor draws students in search of creative inspiration and a sighting of the ghostly writer. A grief-stricken widow roams the halls of Winthrop Hall at Endicott College in her pink wedding gown. She threw herself from her widow’s walk after receiving news of her husband's death at sea, and is known to students today as the “pink lady.” Author Renee Mallett reveals the stories behind these “school spirits”—and offers eerie stories from over two dozen colleges and universities throughout the Bay State.

Book The Late Victorian Gothic

Download or read book The Late Victorian Gothic written by Hilary Grimes and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining technological advances, genre and late nineteenth-century mental science, Grimes shows writers' failed attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de siècle. She treats a wide range of authors, including Henry James, George Du Maurier, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Vernon Lee and Sarah Grand to show the end of the nineteenth century produced a Gothicism specific to the period.

Book The Haunted House in Women   s Ghost Stories

Download or read book The Haunted House in Women s Ghost Stories written by Emma Liggins and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Victorian and modernist haunted houses in female-authored ghost stories as representations of the architectural uncanny. It reconsiders the gendering of the supernatural in terms of unease, denial, disorientation, confinement and claustrophobia within domestic space. Drawing on spatial theory by Gaston Bachelard, Henri Lefebvre and Elizabeth Grosz, it analyses the reoccupation and appropriation of space by ghosts, women and servants as a means of addressing the opposition between the past and modernity. The chapters consider a range of haunted spaces, including ancestral mansions, ghostly gardens, suburban villas, Italian churches and houses subject to demolition and ruin. The ghost stories are read in the light of women’s non-fictional writing on architecture, travel, interior design, sacred space, technology, the ideal home and the servant problem. Women writers discussed include Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Vernon Lee, Edith Wharton, May Sinclair and Elizabeth Bowen. This book will appeal to students and researchers in the ghost story, Female Gothic and Victorian and modernist women’s writing, as well as general readers with an interest in the supernatural.

Book The Routledge Introduction to the American Ghost Story

Download or read book The Routledge Introduction to the American Ghost Story written by Scott Brewster and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the historical development of the American ghost story from its Indigenous, Puritan, and Enlightenment origins to its heyday in the nineteenth century and continued vibrancy in modern literary and visual culture. It explores the main tropes, thematic preoccupations, principal settings, and stylistic innovations of literary ghost stories in the United States, and the ghost story’s rich afterlife in cinema, television, and digital culture. Throughout, the role played by ghost stories in nation-building, and the questions these tales raise about race, class, sexuality, religion, and science, will be examined. The book examines major practitioners in the field, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Shirley Jackson, Henry James, Stephen King, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Edith Wharton, alongside prominent ghost narratives in cinematic, televisual, and online form, including podcasts, gaming, and ghost-hunting apps. This study also gives a new prominence to neglected or less familiar authors, including BIPOC writers, who have helped to shape the American ghost story tradition.

Book Vernon Lee

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vineta Colby
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2003-04-29
  • ISBN : 0813923891
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book Vernon Lee written by Vineta Colby and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2003-04-29 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernon Lee, born Violet Paget in 1856 to English parents who lived on the Continent, bridged two worlds and many cultures. She was a Victorian by birth but lived into the second quarter of the twentieth century. Her chosen home was Italy, but she spent part of every year in England, where she published over the years an impressive number of books: novels, short stories, travel essays, studies of Italian art and music, psychological aesthetics, polemics. She was widely recognized as a woman of letters and moved freely in major literary and social circles, meeting and at times having close friendships with a huge number of the major writers and intellectuals of her time, among them Robert Browning, Walter Pater, Henry James, H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Bernard Berenson, and Mario Praz. Although she never committed herself to one program of political activism, she was an advocate for feminism and social reform and during World War I was an ardent pacifist. In her last years she watched with dismay the emergence of fascism. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography recovers this crowded and intellectually eventful life from her previously unpublished letters and journals, as well as from her books themselves. Vineta Colby also explores Lee’s troubled personal life, from her childhood in an eccentric expatriate family to her several unhappy love affairs with women to her frank recognition that her work, brilliant as some of it was, remained unappreciated. Through it all, Vernon Lee clung to her faith in the life of the mind, and through Colby’s engaging biographical narrative, she emerges today as a writer worthy of renewed attention and admiration. Victorian Literature and Culture Series

Book Giving Up the Ghost

Download or read book Giving Up the Ghost written by Katherine A. Fowkes and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that our enjoyment of ghost films is linked to masochistic pleasure, Giving up the Ghost provides us with a new way of thinking about the relation between film viewing and gender. A deft but readable application of psychoanalytic theories, especially masochism (by way of Deleuze and Studlar), extends the utility of psychoanalysis to the understanding of film genre and film audiences. It is indispensable reading for scholars and students of film theory.

Book Unfolding the South

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  • Author : Alison Chapman
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2003-06-28
  • ISBN : 9780719061301
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Unfolding the South written by Alison Chapman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radically new version of Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the late Romantic and Victorian periods that corrects traditional male-centred accounts.

Book The Shape of Fear

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  • Author : Susan Jennifer Navarette
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2021-05-11
  • ISBN : 0813182662
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book The Shape of Fear written by Susan Jennifer Navarette and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last decades of the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Walter Pater and others changed the nature of thought concerning the human body and the physical environment that had shaped it. In response, the 1890s saw the publication of a series of remarkable literary works that had their genesis in the intense scientific and aesthetic activity of those preceding decades—texts that emphasized themes of degeneration and were themselves stylistically decompositive, with language both a surrogate for physical deformity and a source of anxiety. Susan J. Navarette examines the ways in which scientific and cultural concerns of late nineteenth-century England are coded in the horror literature of the period. By contextualizing the structural, stylistic, and thematic systems developed by writers seeking to reenact textually the entropic forces they perceived in the natural world, Navarette reconstructs the late Victorian mentalité. She analyzes aesthetic responses to trends in contemporary science and explores horror writers' use of scientific methodologies to support their perception that a long-awaited period of cultural decline had begun. In her analysis of the classics Turn of the Screw and Heart of Darkness, Navarette shows how James and Conrad made artistic use of earlier "scientific" readings of the body. She also considers works by lesser-known authors Walter de la Mare, Vernon Lee, and Arthur Machen, who produced fin de siècle stories that took the form of "hybrid literary monstrosities." To underscore the fascination with bodily decay and deformation that these writers explored, The Shape of Fear is enhanced with prints and line drawings by Victor Hugo, James Ensor, and other artists of the day. This elegantly written book formulates a new canon of late Victorian fiction that will intrigue scholars of literature and cultural history.

Book The Ghost Train

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arnold Ridley
  • Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
  • Release : 2010-11
  • ISBN : 9780573609329
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book The Ghost Train written by Arnold Ridley and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery/Thriller Arnold Ridley Characters: 7 male, 4 female Interior Set A long running success in London and on Broadway and packed with thrills, chills and laughter. In Maine near the Canadian border there's a legend of a phantom locomotive sweeping through a peaceful village leaving death in its wake. Rum and narcotic runners use this and the villagers' superstition to their advantage but a not as incompetent as he seems detective clears up the mystery of the sp

Book Life and Letters of John Winthrop  Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company at Their Emigration to New England

Download or read book Life and Letters of John Winthrop Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company at Their Emigration to New England written by Robert Charles Winthrop and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life and Letters of John Winthrop

Download or read book Life and Letters of John Winthrop written by Robert Charles Winthrop and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life and letters of John Winthrop  from 1630 to 1649

Download or read book Life and letters of John Winthrop from 1630 to 1649 written by Robert Charles Winthrop and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: