Books written by Nina Auerbach
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Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time
102 " of her day " : T. Edgar Pemberton , Ellen Terry and Her Sisters ( London : C. Arthur Pearson , 1902 ) , p . 101. Hereafter cited as Pemberton . p . 83 have existed : David Loshak , “ G. F. Watts and Ellen Terry , ” Burlington ...
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Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth
In his foreword to Tribute to Freud Norman Holmes Pearson quotes H. D.'s mythic creed : “ ' For me , it was so important , ' she wrote , repeating , ' it was so important , my own LEGEND . Yes , my own LEGEND .
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Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress
... the great achievement of my family saga . Ellen Terry's refractory children staged for their mother a drama of transformation and survival — the survival not only of a woman but also of the cultural worlds she incarnated .
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Our Vampires, Ourselves
In Our Vampires, Ourselves, Nina Auerbach explores the rich history of this literary and cultural phenomenon to illuminate how every age embraces the vampire it needs—and gets the vampire it deserves.
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Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers
... Ingelow, and Rossetti as they transported their own child heroines into realms of the forbidden. ... Carroll's great Alice books appropriated the central plot of this anthology: a little girl's journey into forbidden countries.
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Our Vampires, Ourselves
Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Nina Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of national experience and uses them as a lens for viewing the last 200 hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history.
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Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress
"Auerbach's Daphne Du Maurier is the author of sixteen other novels, along with biographies, articles, plays, memoirs, and short stories. Where other readers have become absorbed by Rebecca, Auerbach finds...