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Edith Birkhead (1889-1951) was a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol and a Noble Fellow at the University of Liverpool. She wrote a pioneering work on Gothic literature: The Tale of Terror (1921). This work described the fascination with supernatural fiction in English literature from the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in 1764 to Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer in 1820 on to modern times. She included works from Europe as well as America, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

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Edith Birkhead

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Edith Birkhead (1889-1951) was a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol and a Noble Fellow at the University of Liverpool. She wrote...

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Birkhead

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Birkhead is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Edith Birkhead, lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol and a Noble...

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The Iron Shroud

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The flattened bier becomes the iron shroud of Vivenzio's dead body. Edith Birkhead mentions that the "Iron Shroud" belongs in a type of horror story which...

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Supernatural Horror in Literature

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As a guide for what to read in the early gothic he relied partly on Edith Birkhead's 1921 historical survey The Tale of Terror, and he was also able to...

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William Mudford

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from Google Books THE TALE OF TERROR Study of the Gothic Romance BY EDITH BIRKHEAD M.A. ASSISTANT LECTURER IN ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL...

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War" (PDF). The New York Times. 3 December 1938. Retrieved 26 April 2017. Birkhead, May (17 May 1931). "Paris Society Sees Presidency Battle – Many Americans...

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Gespensterbuch

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J. (2005). Fantasmagoriana: Tales of the Dead. ISBN 1-4116-5291-6. Birkhead, Edith (1921). The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance. London:...

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Gothic fiction

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in The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales, Oxford: Oxford University Press Birkhead, Edith (1921), The Tale of Terror Bloom, Clive (2007), Gothic Horror: A Guide...

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Charles Lindbergh

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Archived from the original on April 9, 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2020. Birkhead, Leon Milton. "Is Lindbergh a Nazi?" (PDF). charleslindbergh.com. Archived...

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Pisgah National Forest

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the Biltmore Estate, but were sold to the federal government in 1914 by Edith Vanderbilt. Some of the forest tracts were among the first purchases by...

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Daisy Polk

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1920. Retrieved 20 March 2011. "Recherche - Base de données Léonore". Birkhead, May (4 December 1932). "Americans Attend a Service in Paris; Annual Thanksgiving...

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Society reporting

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writer is more widely known on both sides of the Atlantic than May Birkhead." Birkhead wrote society columns for the Paris editions of the New York Herald...

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Ornithology

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University of Oklahoma Press. Aldrovandi, Ulisse (1599). Ornithologiae. Birkhead TR & S van Balen (2008). "Bird-keeping and the development of ornithological...

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List of Baptists

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Britain (2002–2013) Larry Birkhead (born 1973, US), father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Birkhead Brian Bluhm (1982–2007, US)...

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Henry Herman Harjes

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rothschildarchive.org. The Rothschild Archive. Retrieved 3 March 2020. Birkhead, May (26 January 1930). "OLD TALES CLING TO HARJES CHATEAU; This American-Owned...

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List of TED speakers

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2012) Andrew Bird A one-man orchestra of the imagination (TED2010) Tim Birkhead The early birdwatchers (TED2010) Mina Bissell Experiments that point to...

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Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations

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Dryden Press: J. Davy & Sons. 1895. p. 30. hdl:2027/uc1.31175007654877. Birkhead, Edith (1921). The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance. London:...

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Behavioral ecology

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Behaviour. 28: 52–59. doi:10.1016/s0003-3472(80)80007-8. S2CID 53167007. Birkhead, T. and Moller, A. (1992). Sperm Competition in Birds: Evolutionary Causes...

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1944 New Year Honours

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James Joseph Kennett (Portsmouth). Chief Engine Room Artificer Horace Birkhead (East Audsley, Yorkshire). Chief Engine Room Artificer Allerton Bywater...

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