Other Female Gothic Writers

Other Female Gothic Writers

 

Clara Reeve (1729-1807)

  • The Old English Baron

Eliza Parsons (1739-1811)

  • The Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) 
  • The Mysterious Warning (1796)

Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806) 

  • Emmeline; or The Orphan of the Castle (1788)
  • Ethelinde; or the Recluse of the Lake (1789)
  • Celestina (1791)
  • Desmond (1792)
  • The Old Manor House (1793)

Sofia Lee (1750-1824)

  • The Chapter of Accidents (1780)
  • Almeyda, Queen of Granada (1796)
  • The Assignation (1807)

Regina Maria Roche (1764-1845) 

  • The Vicar of Lansdowne: or, Country Quarters (1796)
  • The Children of the Abbey: a Tale (1796)
  • Clermont: a Tale (1798)
  • Nocturnal Visit: a Tale (1800)
  • Alvandown Vicarage (1807)

Eleanor Sleath (1770-1800)

  • The Orphan of the Rhine (1798)
  • Who’s the Murderer? (1802)
  • The Bristol Heiress; or the Errors of Education (1809)
  • The Nocturnal Minstrel; or the Spirit of the woods (1810)
  • Pyrenean Banditti, 1811

Charlotte Dacre (1771-1825)

  • Trifles of Helicon with her sister Sophia King
  • Hours of Solitude (Poems) (1805)
  • Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer (1805)
  • Zofloya (1806)
  • The Libertine (1807)

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

–Her forgotten Thrillers Published Posthumously:

  • A Long Fatal Love Chase
  • Behind the Mask 
  • The Inheritance 
  • The Mummy’s Curse 
  • A Modern Mephistopheles

Florence Marryat (1833-1899)

  • The Blood of the Vampire (1897)

Daphne Du Maurier (1907-1989) 

  • Rebecca
  • Jamaica Inn
  • My Cousin Rachel

Dorothy Eden (1912-1982)

  • The Singing Shadows (1940)
  • The Laughing Ghost (1943)

We Are for the Dark (1944)