“Drawing on recent scholarship as well as established traditions of thinking about the ghost story, Emma Liggins’ book constitutes a very useful contribution to an emerging critical field.  The argument explores ideas about space and identity, referring to thinkers like Bachelard and Irigaray, in especially interesting new ways. The book is lucid and articulate throughout and will be a useful resource for teaching.” (Dr Luke A. Thurston, Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature, Aberystwyth University)

“Emma Liggins takes us on a rich tour of the haunted houses and gardens of Victorian and modernist women’s writing. Bringing together female-authored short Gothic fiction and non-fiction including country house studies, art criticism and advice manuals, this carefully researched book reveals how female authors used spatial tropes to articulate their profound sense of unease about domesticity. The study’s chronological span from the mid-nineteenth century to the Second WorldWar charts the development of a shared spatial thematic in female-authored Gothic fiction while foregrounding the ruptures of modernity.” (Dr Minna Vuohelainen, City, University of London)