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(and I think Witch was my favorite Barbara Michaels novel. Of course, it was the first one I read, and I was about 14 so I had a mad crush on TIm, so that may have some bearing on the favoritism...)
Geez does that take me back. I binged on Gothics and thirteen, and by high school was writing dire (I thought) sendups of Gothics from the kids' POVs. Now I look forward to this one of yours even more!
The head banger for me was my encounter in eighth grade of Richard Armstrong's THROUGH DARKEST ADOLESCENCE. I promptly started writing a nastygram in return called THROUGH DARKEST ADULTHOOD from the teen POV. Some of the drawings I made circulated the junior high; I fancy that a few of the character types now are showing up in MAD MEN! The early and mid sixties were not a glam time for adult behavior, nosiree Bob.
But anyway, that was my ZOMIGOD moment with POV. (UNfortunately for me, things like style and pacing took another fifty years to begin to start to possibly get close to maybe someday understanding.)
Oh god, I love Turn of the Screw so much. And the adaption The Innocents. With that set up there's nobody better to write it than Henry James, because he never lets anybody talk about anything. Like, of course nobody's going to find out what Miles did to get expelled from school. Much better to just imagine the worst!
I remember one Henry James book where the big scandal was finally uncovered and I was like...wait, so those two people are sleeping together? I thought that was a given...? No wonder the narrator always seemed far too confused for the situation!
I love Barbara Micheals so I'll be interested to see which one is your favorite. My first one was Ammie Come Home, so I have a fondness for that, although it isn't really as gothic as some of her others. When the girl meets the house because she's inherited it and she holds on to it all by herself, it is far less gothic.
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I enjoyed the way A Cat in Paris played with this trope.
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I admit that, say, Mrs Danvers of Rebecca is not a super kindly housekeeper...
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(and I think Witch was my favorite Barbara Michaels novel. Of course, it was the first one I read, and I was about 14 so I had a mad crush on TIm, so that may have some bearing on the favoritism...)
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I can't tell if your Jared picture looks more like Tim or like a young Dean Winchester.
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But anyway, that was my ZOMIGOD moment with POV. (UNfortunately for me, things like style and pacing took another fifty years to begin to start to possibly get close to maybe someday understanding.)
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I remember one Henry James book where the big scandal was finally uncovered and I was like...wait, so those two people are sleeping together? I thought that was a given...? No wonder the narrator always seemed far too confused for the situation!
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