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22 October 2020 14:38![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaonFantastic news: Me, getting to diversify the eerie Victoriana strand of my reading list, thanks to this new longread about female Victorian horror writers.
(it's unsurprising but still an irritant, that my sources are dominated by comfortable white men)
Terrible news: it's expensive and challenging and in some cases, you're looking for a single 1930s reprint, to access texts by the male authors in this field who aren't Lovecraft or Dickens. James, Blackwood, more Machen and Dunsanay have been on my christmas list for years now, and I really don't want to make Lovecraft the touchpoint for how I talk about this, because you know Lovecraft, but...
...and I imagine the little-known women of this genre are even harder to access in, say, a 25p second-hand paperback surfacing in the junk shop of an isolated rural village.
(it's unsurprising but still an irritant, that my sources are dominated by comfortable white men)
Terrible news: it's expensive and challenging and in some cases, you're looking for a single 1930s reprint, to access texts by the male authors in this field who aren't Lovecraft or Dickens. James, Blackwood, more Machen and Dunsanay have been on my christmas list for years now, and I really don't want to make Lovecraft the touchpoint for how I talk about this, because you know Lovecraft, but...
...and I imagine the little-known women of this genre are even harder to access in, say, a 25p second-hand paperback surfacing in the junk shop of an isolated rural village.
