The Poor Clare (short story)

The Poor Clare
Author	Elizabeth Gaskell
Language	English
Genre	Gothic ghost story
Publication date	13–27 December 1856 (serialized)
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

The Poor Clare is a short story by English Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell. First serialised in three installments in 1856 Charles Dickens' popular magazine Household Words,^[1] The Poor Clare is a gothic ghost story^[2] about a young woman unwittingly cursed by her own grandmother.

^ Gaskell's Ghosts: Truths in Disguise Martin, Carol A. Studies in the Novel; Spring 1989; 21, 1; MLA International Bibliography pg. 27
^ The term "ghost story" as used through this article is defined by Julia Briggs in Night Visitors, The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story (London: Faber, 1977) as being "not only stories about ghosts, but also about possession and demonic bargains, spirits other than those of the dead...and the 'ghost-soul' or 'Doppelganger'" (p. 12)

[1] Gaskell's Ghosts: Truths in Disguise Martin, Carol A. Studies in the Novel; Spring 1989; 21, 1; MLA International Bibliography pg. 27

[2] The term "ghost story" as used through this article is defined by Julia Briggs in Night Visitors, The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story (London: Faber, 1977) as being "not only stories about ghosts, but also about possession and demonic bargains, spirits other than those of the dead...and the 'ghost-soul' or 'Doppelganger'" (p. 12)

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