The Gothic Novel Reader Comes to Russia

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Gothic writer Orest Somov describes a woman who falls victim to the gothic novel craze in the satirical story Mommy and Sonny (Matushka i synok, 1833). While observing a year of mourning following her husband’s death, Margarita Savishna read novels, of which she ordered a great supply from Moscow, basing the choice of titles on the positive testimony of the announcements placed in the supplements to the Moskovskie vedomosti [Moscow News], composed by resourceful publishers and booksellers. … ...

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