The Woman in Black Context

Susan Hill published the novella in 1983,however it is set in three different time frames-
-1930/1940s(Older Arthur Kipps)
-1900/1910s(Young Arthur Kipps)
-1850s(Jennet’s time period)
The novella is a pastiche of a Victorian ghost story(it imitates it by including traditional tropes of the ghost story genre).
The novella has the following tropes-
-isolation
-eerie settings
-mysterious old house
-taboos
-the revenant(a figure from the past comes back to haunt you-in this case it is Jennet Humfrye)
-terror and horror
-supernatural
-a logical,skeptical protagonist who is changed by their experiences and becomes a believer
-a rational character who appears at regular intervals in order to help the protagonist(Samuel Daily)
-obscurity
Susan Hill is a Christian writer and is critiquing Victorian society’s mistreatment of women as well as their religious…