[Gutenberg 2548] • The Poor Clare
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- Authors
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
- Publisher
- Blurb
- Tags
- horror tales , england -- social life and customs -- 19th century -- fiction , english
- ISBN
- 9781714391011
- Date
- 2020-02-07T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.07 MB
- Lang
- en
The Poor Clare is a short story by English Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell. First serialized in three installments in 1856 Charles Dickens' popular magazine Household Words, The Poor Clare is a gothic ghost story about a young woman unwittingly cursed by her own grandmother. The Story is narrated by an unnamed young lawyer from London, reflecting on the "extraordinary incidents" which he experienced in his youth.