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‘Let the miserable wrestle with his own shadows’: The beleaguered Edwardian male author in Oliver Onions’ ‘The Beckoning Fair One’ (2017)
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Brennan, Z. (2017). ‘Let the miserable wrestle with his own shadows’: The beleaguered Edwardian male author in Oliver Onions’ ‘The Beckoning Fair One’. Literature and History, 26(2), 177-194. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306197317724665

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. This article argues that the much-anthologised ghost story ‘The Beckoning Fair One’ (1911) by Oliver Onions is usefully read as engaging with a number of contemporary anxieties centred on the Edwardian male writer. Onion... Read More about ‘Let the miserable wrestle with his own shadows’: The beleaguered Edwardian male author in Oliver Onions’ ‘The Beckoning Fair One’.