“She was a brave and a busy woman”: Rediscovering Florence Marryat, Victorian novelist, spiritualist, and performer

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. e12439
Author(s):  
Sarah Lennox
Keyword(s):  
Florence Marryat

Queering the Female Gothic

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ardel Haefele-Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Slave Narratives ◽  
Carson Mccullers ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Vernon Lee ◽  
Female Gothic ◽  
Florence Marryat ◽  
And Gender

Queering the Female Gothic’ examines work by women writers from the 1890s onwards who use the Gothic to create covert and/or overt queer situations and characters. These are often used to explore cultural and social concerns, such as restrictive patriarchal and hetero-normative family structures, the medical pathologisation of female and genderqueer bodies, institutions of racism and sexism within colonial and slave narratives, and contemporary issues surrounding the intersections of sexuality, race, class and gender identity. The chapter examines the work of a number of American and British women authors who have employed the Gothic as a proverbial safe space in which to explore these concerns; they include Vernon Lee, Florence Marryat, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, Maryse Condé, Jane Chambers, Jewelle Gomez, Sarah Waters, Yvonne Heidt and Cate Culpepper. Not only do their fictions encompass queer characters and scenarios in terms of gender identities outside of the male/female binary and the full spectrum of queer sexual orientation, but the authors themselves, taken as a group, embody the full spectrum as far as gender identity and sexual orientation are concerned.

Florence Marryat

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (7) ◽  
pp. 904-905
Author(s):  
Felipe Espinoza Garrido
Keyword(s):  
Florence Marryat
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