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Miss Jessel appears over the pond / The governess confronts Flora
Film stills (55:11 / 1:18:19) from The Innocents (1961), directed by Jack Clayton. While the governess is initially frightened of Miss Jessel, this is complicated as the film continues. She becomes influenced by the ghost and the implications that…
"It removed my veil from its gaunt head, rent it in two parts, and, flinging both on the floor, trampled on them."
The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë similarly demonstrates the recurrence of feminine influence and traumatic bond between women in gothic horror. The two women recognizably share a sexual role, as the romantic partner to Mr. Rochester. Bertha's…
Laura in Bed
The story of Carmilla follows the narration of a young woman who discovers that her close female companion and bond, Carmilla, is a vampire who has romantic desires for her. The novella is notable in that its tone is not hostile towards…
“Faintly I heard her calling, calling in a whisper which could not disguise the anxiety, even terror, in her voice”
A periodical illustration done for a work of fiction. A woman stands gathered in a shawl, holding a lantern and peering out into the darkness of the night around her. The subject is visibly frightened and is dwarfed by the unknown of surroundings,…
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The values of the illustration are kept dark and slurred, with wispy and overcast background elements pulling the silhouttes of the women to focus. The illustration serves as an example of Raleigh’s engagement with dread and anxiety, and the…
“By What Right Does She Accuse Me of Sins I Am Not Responsible For?”
The illustration features two women in finery dressing (or cowering to the ground, under the scorn of three “crone” like figures, hunched over and brandishing their fists and canes at the young pair. The central of the aggressing figures stands at…
“For a moment the wonder in the girl face was replaced by fear— the dread of a memory”
A periodical illustration made for a work of fiction in The Ladies' Home Journal. A young woman gestures wildly from a bed as she recalls a terrifying encounter with a suitor. A nurse and a baby in a cradle sit beside the bed in the looming darkness…
"I must have thrown myself, on my face, on the ground"
The sixth illustration for the serialized printing of Henry James' novella The Turn of the Screw. The governess collapses as she is faced with the spirit of her predecessor, Miss Jessel, and the gravity of the danger present at Bly Manor.
"He presently produced something that made me drop straight down to the stone slab"
The fifth illustration for the serialized printing of Henry James' novella The Turn of the Screw. The governess has an unsettling conversation with Miles in the churchyard, and her suspicions over his behavior and manner deepens.
"He did stand there!--But high up, beyond the lawn and at the very top of the tower..."
The third illustration for the serialized printing of Henry James' novella The Turn of the Screw. The governess sees the specter of the lecherous former groundskeeper, Peter Quint, watching her from the tower of the manor.