"Writing for the Spectre of Poverty: Exhuming Sarah Wilkinson's Bluebooks and Novels"
This scholarly essay by Franz Potter provides a very helpful overview of Wilkinson's life and literary labors. [Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text]
Sarah Wilkinson
Partial Gothic bibliography. [Corvey Women Writers on the Web, Sheffield Hallam u]
Etexts:
The Castle Spectre: An Ancient Baronial Romance [1820]
The Child of Mystery [1808] (448K)
"The Midnight Embrace"
The Spectre; or, the Ruin of Belfont Priory
"The Water Spectre"
[1805] (35K)
This is one of Wilkinson's chapbook renditions (the other was published in 1807), available here as an efacsimile in PDF, of Matthew Lewis's famed Gothic play The Castle Spectre. [The Haunted Curtain]
The Child of Mystery [1808] (448K)
[Chawton House Library]
"The Midnight Embrace"
This story by Wilkinson (thanks to Franz Potter for the identification), is a gender inversion of The Spectre Bridegroom motif; in this case, it's the woman who is betrayed and who reappears as the vengeful ghost
- at HorrorMasters (where it is incorrectly attributed to Matthew Lewis) [PDF]
The Spectre; or, the Ruin of Belfont Priory
- at HorrorMasters (PDF; not printable)
"The Water Spectre"
[1805] (35K)
Thanks to Franz Potter for correct identification of the authorship of this piece.
- at LitGothic
