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eldritchhobbit ([personal profile] eldritchhobbit) wrote2024-10-07 07:28 am
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Halloween Countdown 2024, Day 7

Another Gothic title very popular with women working in 19th-century mills in Lowell, Massachusetts was The Children of the Abbey (1796) by Regina Maria Roche.

Read it here.

Quote: The horrors of my mind I cannot describe; I seemed to stand alone in the world, without one friendly hand to prevent my sinking into the grave, which contained the dearest objects of my love.

Vintage black-and-white memento mori artwork of skull surrounded by symbols of death.