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The feminist and writer Mary Wollstonecraft met her end at the hands of a medical mystery that killed scores of 18th century mothers. Why? More »
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With Halloween is almost upon us, every major paper is running stories on haunted houses, scary movies, pop culture-inspired costumes and... horror fiction. One of the more interesting pieces, from Sunday's New York Times, concerns the role of female authors in the horror genre. After naming Mary Shelley as the “mother of horror,” author Terrence Rafferty points out that there have been very few women who have made a career out of scaring readers: More »
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