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Birkhead, Edith.
Edith Birkhead
Edith Birkhead
(1889-1951) was a
lecturer
in
English Literature
at the
University of Bristol
and a Noble Fellow at the
University of Liverpool
. She wrote a pioneering work on
Gothic literature
: ''The Tale of Terror'' (1921). This work described the fascination with
supernatural
fiction in
English literature
from the publication of
Horace Walpole
's ''
The Castle of Otranto
'' in 1764 to
Charles Maturin
's ''
Melmoth the Wanderer
'' in 1820 on to modern times. She included works from
Europe
as well as
America
, including
Nathaniel Hawthorne
and
Edgar Allan Poe
.
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