Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Edinburgh Award/Gothic Literature and Film

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This project aims to create new and improve old pages regarding gothic literature and film on Wikipedia. Track progress at: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/University_of_Edinburgh/Gothic_Literature_and_Film_-_Edinburgh_Award

Looking for ideas

1. List of Gothic artists
2. Gothic architecture
3. Gothic architects
4. Category: Gothic paintings
5. List of gothic fiction works
6. List of Gothic horror films
7. Writers of Gothic fiction
8. Gothic novels
9. Southern Gothic films

Articles to be created

Vicki's Halloween ideas

• American Gothic (novel) - Article needs expansion. Only thing I can find is this book resource.
• Arthur Mervyn (novel) - needs additional citations for verification. Resources here, here and here.
• The Bad Seed (film) - Article needs additional citations for verification + significant expansion. Resources here, here, here, here, and here.
• The Bad Seed (novel) - Article needs additional citations for verification. Resources here, and here.
• Charles Brockden Brown(American novelist) - Insufficient inline citations despite list of references and further reading. Resources here and here.
• Edward Mordake - Article needs improvements (tone/style suitability). Possible resources here, here, here and here.
• The Green Mile - Article needs additional citations for verification. Resources here, here, and here.
• Hangman (Shirley Jackson novel) - Article is currently a stub and needs to be expanded. Resources here, here and here.
• Misty (comics) - Article has multiple issues. Resources here, here, here, and here.
• Psycho (novel) - Article needs additional citations for verification. Possible resources here and here.
• SWF Seeks Same (thriller novel) - Stub; article needs additional citations for verification. Resources here and here.
• Wieland (novel) - lead section does not adequately summarise key points. Minor revisions required.

Classic Gothic Literature

• In the Mirror (novel) - by Valery Bryusov [1][2][3][4]
• The Adventure of the German Student (short story) - by Washington Irving[5][6][7][8][9][10]
• Das Majorat by E.T.A. Hoffman - Translate article from German Wikipedia. [11][12][13]
• Robert Louis Stevenson works:
  • The Waif Woman - short story [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
  • The Treasure of Franchard - short story.[22][23][24][25]
  • The Old and New Pacific Capitals - travel writing.
  • Ticonderoga: A Legend of the West Highlands - ballad based on a ghost story.[26][27]

• Stevenson's Illustrators
  • Ernest Noble (?)
  • Paul Horrup
  • Barry Mosa

Contemporary Gothic Writers

• The Ghost Writer (novel) - Link to Google Books
• The Lake House (Kate Morton novel)
• Darling Jim (novel) by Christian Moerk
• White is for Witching (novel) by Helen Oyeyemi
• Twilight (William Gay novel)
• Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah.
• The Heaven of Mercury by Brad Watson (writer)
• Burning Bright (short story collection) by Ron Rash.
• Winterwood by Dorothy Eden.[28][29][30]

Lost Literary Women

Edinburgh has a long literary history, and many famous authors have made the city their setting and subject. But it’s also a place rich in voices and stories which are now just the faintest of echoes around its streets and tenements. The LitLong app and web resource recovers some of these lives and stories, giving them back to the city and its readers. But LitLong users rely on the common store of knowledge built up elsewhere online, so in this event we’ll be adding to that store by creating and improving Wikipedia pages for neglected or overlooked authors in the LitLong database.

• Lady Dorothea Knighton author of Memoirs of Sir William Knighton (1838)
• Jane Alexander (novelist) author of The Last Treasure Hunt (2015)
• Mary Emily Cameron author of House of Achendaroch: an Old Maid's Story (1878)
• Norma Bright Carson author of From Irish Castles to French Chateaux (1910)
• Mary Caumont author of Hanleys; or, Wheels within Wheels
• Regi Claire author of The Waiting (2012)
• Frances Mary Colquhoun author of A Bit of the Tartan
• Mary Contini author of Dear Olivia (2006)
• Lucy Yeend Culler author of Europe: Through a Woman's Eyes (1883)
• Catherine Cornelia Joy Dyer author of Sunny Days Abroad (1873)
• Eudora Lindsay South author of Wayside notes and fireside thoughts (1884)
• Mrs A. E. Newman (under the pseudonym 'Evangeline') author of European leaflets for young ladies (1862)
• Mary Wilson Gordon author of Christopher North(1862)
• Mrs Gordon author of The Fortunes of the Falconars (1845)
• Leslie Gore (writer) author of Annie Jennings (1870)
• Robina F. Hardy author of Glenairlie, Kilgarvie and Tibby's Tryst
• Annie Elizabeth Nicholson Ireland author of Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle (1891)
• Jean Lang (writer) author of Stories of the Border Marches (1916)
• Agnes Marchbank author of Ruth Farmer (1896)
• Emma M. Nye author of Addresses and letters of travel
• Mrs William Parker author of Wandering Thoughts and Wandering Steps (1880)
• Sarah Pitt author of The White House at Inch Gow (1891)
• Catherine Ray author of Aground in the Shallows (1879)
• Laura L. Rees author of We four (1880)
• Mrs William G. Rose author of Travels in Europe and Northern Africa (1901)
• Mary D. Richardson Rosengarten author of Eight Journeys Abroad (1917)
• Janet Schaw author of Journal of a Lady of Quality (1921)
• Susan Frances Ludomilla Schetky author of Ninety years of work and play (1877)
• Irene Simmonds author of Our trip to Europe (1917)
• Marcia Penfield Snyder author of Eight lands in eight weeks (1911)
• Clara Moyse Tadlock author of Bohemian days (1889)
• Ella W. Thompson author of Beaten paths (1874)
• Mrs E. H. Thompson author of From the Thames to the Trossachs (18901)
• Mary Ella Waller author of From an island outpost (1914)
• Mary Clementina Hibbert Ware author of His Dearest Wish (1883)
• Sarah Robertson Whitehead author of Nelly Armstrong: a Story of the Day (1853)
• Margaret Williamson author of John and Betty's Scotch history visit (1912)
• Jessie Aitken Wilson author of Memoir of George Wilson (1860)
• Julia Virginia Wilson author of Leaves from my diary (1900)
• Lady Isabella Moncrieff - wrote several novels under pseudonym Mrs. Martha Blackford.

Articles to be improved

Scottish Gothic

• Louise Welsh - article to be expanded & improved with infobox, picture etc.
• John Burnside - To be expanded on, improved (esp. bibliography section).
• Poor Things by Alasdair Gray is quite a short article - to be expanded/improved upon with new sections.
• Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray could be expanded/added to.
• The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson to be expanded/improved upon (citations especially).
• Morag Joss is a stub article – to be expanded.
• Andrew Crumey to be expanded.
• AL Kennedy to be expanded/added to.
• Ali Smith to be expanded/added to.

Classic Gothic literature

• Jane Eyre - Feminism section requires citations and rest of article requires some additional citations.
• The Hound of the Baskervilles - Technique section requires citations.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde poster edit2

Picture of Margaret Oliphant

• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - requires improvement especially in the plot summary & use of citations. Could also add to the 'Inspiration for Jekyll & Hyde' section with the Dr. Eugene Chantrelle story [[31] [32] [33] [34]
• Treasure Island - requires citations [35] [36].
• Catriona (novel) by Robert Louis Stevenson - requires citations.
• Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson is a stub - requires expansion [37] [38] .
• St. Ives (novel) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a stub - requires expansion.
• The Wrong Box (novel) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a stub - requires expansion.
• Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson is a stub - requires expansion & citations.
• More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter: a collection of linked short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift is a stub - requires expansion.
• The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables: a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson is a stub - requires expansion.
• Island Nights' Entertainments:a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson is a stub - requires expansion.
• Tales and Fantasies: a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson is a stub - requires expansion.
• Ann Radcliffe - see journal articles.
• The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats - needs inline citations and original research elements removed.
• Varney the Vampire - find citations.
• James Malcolm Rymer - author of Penny Dreadfuls. Article requires expanding.
• Thomas Peckett Prest - author of Penny Dreadfuls. Article requires expanding.
• The Devil's Elixirs
• H. P. Lovecraft - add citations and create Mabacre stories page on Lovecraft's 1905-1920 works.
• The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs - needs citations.

Contemporary Gothic Writers

• Dorothy Eden - stub article needs expanded.
• Jane Aiken Hodge - needs additional sources.
• Diane Setterfield
• The Thirteenth Tale - add citations.
• John Harwood (writer)
• Flowers in the Attic - plot summary & citations to be improved.
• The House at Riverton - plot summary & citations to be improved.
• Touch Not the Cat
• Helen Oyeyemi
• V. C. Andrews - add citations.
• Gregory Maguire - add image.
• The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter - see journal articles.
• Morag Joss
• Half-Broken Things by Morag Joss

Southern Gothic

• Henry Clay Lewis - needs expanded.
• Truman Capote - a number of citations are needed in this article.
• The Night of the Hunter (novel)
• Wise Blood (film) - stub article, needs expanded.
• Frailty (film) - needs citations.
• Salvation on Sand Mountain - needs expanded.
• Brad Watson (writer) - needs expanded.
• Tom Franklin (author) - needs expanded.
• Mark Richard

Gothic films

• The Curse of Frankenstein - 1957 film requires citations throughout the article. Production and Reception sections could be expanded.
• Dracula (1958 film) - Needs details of its original release.
• Gothic (film) - Ken Russell film from 1986 requires citations and the Reception section to be expanded.
• The Innocents (1961 film) - add to the section on the film's reception.
• Fascination (1979 film) - needs improved/expanded in a few sections.
• Ghost Story (film) - needs rewritten.
• The House with Laughing Windows - needs expansion in a few sections.
• Les Diaboliques (film) requires the Reception section expanding.
• Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde - 1971 film requires additional citations and details of film's release.
• Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell - 1974 film requires additional citations & tidy up.
• Hour of the Wolf - 1968 Ingmar Bergman film requires additional citations & tidy up.
• House of Usher (film) - 1960 film requires details of the film's production & reception.

Lost Literary Women

• Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson author of Greyfriars Bobby (1912)
• Elspeth Davie author of Climbers on a Stair (1978)
• Margaret Elphinstone author of The Incomer and Sparrow's Flight
• Eliza Fletcher author of Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher (1874)
• Elizabeth Grant (diarist) author of Memoirs of a Highland Lady (1898)
• Sara Jane Lippincott, a.k.a 'Grace Greenwood', author of Bonnie Scotland (1861)
• Lizzie Allen Harker author of Miss Esperance and Mr. Wycherly (1908)
• Laura Hird author of Nail and Other Stories (1997) and Hope and Other Urban Tales (2006)
• Violet Jacob author of Flemington (1911) and the Songs of Angus (1915)
• Christian Isobel Johnstone author of The Edinburgh Tales (1846) and Elizabeth de Bruce (1827)
• Elinor Macartney Lane author of Nancy Stair (1904)
• Ada Ellen Bayly, a.k.a. Edna Lyall, author of Wayfaring men (1897)
• Rosaline Masson author of Edinburgh (1910)
• Nancy Brysson Morrison, a.k.a. Agnes Morrison, author of The Gowk Storm (1933)
• Willa Muir author of Imagined Corners (1931)
• Phoebe Palmer author of Four Years in the Old World (1866)
• Eve Blantyre Simpson author of Robert Louis Stevenson (1906)
• Catherine Sinclair author of Modern Society (1837) and Modern Flirtations (1841)
• E. D. E. N. Southworth, a.k.a. Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, author of Self-Raised; or, From the Depths (1876)
• Alice Thompson author of The Existential Detective (2014)
• Lucy Bethia Walford author of A question of penmanship (1893)
• Clementina Stirling Graham author of Mystifications (1865)

Suggestions from the Centre for the History of the Gothic - University of Sheffield

• Charlotte Smith – Improvement plus possible creation
  • add citations, journal articles
  • create pages for novels – include citations etc
• The Old English Baron – Improvement
  • Improve plot summary
• Regina Maria Roche – Improvement
  • Improve The Children of the Abbey and Clermont page.
• Eliza Parsons
  • The Mysterious Warning – Improvement: add citations.
• Eleanor Sleath – Create author page.
• The Midnight Bell – Improve
  • Improve plot summary
• Paul Feval – Improvement
  • Plot summary for novels
  • Add citations, journal articles etc
• Patrick McGrath – Improvement
  • Author page needs improving
  • Novel pages need improving and adding citations, including Doctor Haggard’s Disease, Martha Peakes, Part Mungo, and Constance
• Mervyn Peake – Improvement
  • Boy in Darkness needs improved plot summary.
• Brian DeLeeuw – Author page needs creating

Robert Louis Stevenson on Wikisource

• Help transcribe Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, 'The Wrecker', on Wikimedia's free content library, Wikisource.
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• Help:Editing

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Sources

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• We will provide a variety of reference books on the day.
• Editors will also have access to some University of Edinburgh e-resources.
• Search for articles on Google Scholar
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• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• The Hathi Trust Digital Library - 100s of novels & other assorted texts
• Shareable Images can be found through a Creative Commons search(which includes Google, Flickr & Wikicommons in its search).
• MLA International Bibliography
• Oxford Biographies Online
• Oxford Handbooks Online
• Academic Video Online
• Art & Architecture Archive
• The University of Edinburgh image collections

Suggested sources:

General

• DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.

News sources

• Factiva
• British Newspaper Archive
• More at: Edinburgh University Library - Newspaper database

Theses databases

• Edinburgh Research Archive. For theses produced at the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Research Archive
• Proquest Dissertations
• More at: Edinburgh University Library - Theses database