#Feminist Studies
Drawn by the antique cover and the peculiar name, I stumbled upon "Dragonwyck", a gothic romance novel that tells the story of Miranda Wells, an 18-year-old farm girl in the US during the mid-nineteenth century. The author Anya Seton set the story in 1844 when Miranda seized a rare chance of escaping the ordinary and expected lifestyle of her father’s farm to go to Dragonwyck manor, the world of her distant and aristocratic cousin, Nicholas Van Ryn. Following the customs of…
