Sir Rohan’s Ghost. A Romance Lynette ReidOriginally published in 1860, the formative Gothic novel by Harriet Prescott Spofford (18351921), one of nineteenth century Americas most significant woman writers, relates the tale of a tormented British aristocrat who struggles to retain his sanity while suffering horrifying visitations from the spectre of his dead lover amid the agonies of an already fragile mind.
He later emigrated to England and became a tailor
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political and cultural history of alcohol in England
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