GhostsEdith WhartonNew York Review Books, $16.95 (paper)
In 1902 American writer Edith Wharton and her husband Teddy purchased 113 acres of land in Lenox, Massachusetts,...
Ireland is a proudly haunted island, its landscape defined by ancient cairns and standing stones, by ruined abbeys, castles and cottages.The spectral comes in...
“The most important thing is the setting,” says Ruth Robbins, professor of Victorian literature at Leeds Beckett University in England. “In the 19th century,...