Angela Wright, of the University of Sheffield, is convening a panel on eighteenth-century women's Gothic writing at a conference on Women's Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century to be held at Chawton House, Hampshire, UK, in July 2013.  For further details about the conference, click here.

Focusing on Gothic and fantastic elements within the literature of Scottish women authors from the late 1970’s onwards, Monica Germana’s new book provides an innovative interpretation of ‘the state of the nation’ in literary terms.