Editing Edith Birkhead

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'''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 [[United States|America]], including [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] and [[Edgar Allan Poe]].

==Works==
*''Imagery and style in Shelley''. Liverpool: University of Liverpool, 1912.
*''The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance''. London: Constable, 1921.
*"Sentiment and Sensibility in the Eighteenth Century Novel". ''Essays and Studies of the English Association'', 11. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925.
*''Christina Rossetti and Her Poetry''. London: Harrap, 1930.

==External links==
* {{Gutenberg author |id=5388| name=Edith Birkhead}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Edith Birkhead}}
* {{Librivox author |id=10495}}

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