The Woman in Black Context

The Woman in Black is a novel in which the social context is important. It is a ghost story that spans the latter half of the nineteenth centruy and the first half of the twentieth century when the role of women was far more restricted than it is now.

The period in which the novel is set is vague but the main events occur some time at the beginning of the twentiegh century. Although cars had been invented, they were used exclusively by rich people. The pony…