Alison Raouf

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The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe
You follow Emily St Aubert from sunlit France into the oppressive corridors of Udolpho, where music, shadows, and a black veil keep your nerves pleasantly busy. It’s long, ornate, and sometimes dramatically overwrought, but the atmosphere is so carefully sustained that the castle starts haunting you too.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë
Helen slamming her bedroom door against her charming drunk of a husband still feels startling. You get her whole diary, so the mystery widow becomes a woman you actually know, and it's angrier and braver than anything her sisters wrote.