08-29-2008, 08:46 PM
Once I graduated from college, I was finally free to read whatever I wanted.
I was interested in women writers pre-20th c, and saw what a huge number of them had written Gothic novels.
So started reading Ann Radcliffe and then every single classic I could find. And that was in the pre-internet days! Thank goodness for Oxford Classics and Virago.
Life is a lot easier now with Gutenberg offering free full text versions!!
Especially since it is so hard to find good Gothic novels these days. I use http://Booksfree.com to get backlists of authors I really like, and http://HerStoryBooks.com for Sorcha MacMurrough's Rakehell Regency and other titles. There is always a lot more than meets the eye going on in her books.
Oh yes, and Shannon Farrell as well. I just downloaded a copy from there too of Call Home the Heart, set in Victorian Ireland in a decaying mansion, and wow, it has romance, suspense, passion, all rolled into one. Kensington published the paperback edition.
I was interested in women writers pre-20th c, and saw what a huge number of them had written Gothic novels.
So started reading Ann Radcliffe and then every single classic I could find. And that was in the pre-internet days! Thank goodness for Oxford Classics and Virago.
Life is a lot easier now with Gutenberg offering free full text versions!!
Especially since it is so hard to find good Gothic novels these days. I use http://Booksfree.com to get backlists of authors I really like, and http://HerStoryBooks.com for Sorcha MacMurrough's Rakehell Regency and other titles. There is always a lot more than meets the eye going on in her books.
Oh yes, and Shannon Farrell as well. I just downloaded a copy from there too of Call Home the Heart, set in Victorian Ireland in a decaying mansion, and wow, it has romance, suspense, passion, all rolled into one. Kensington published the paperback edition.