Tots Flashcards
What did Rev. Wescott say needed to be included in a supernatural account for it to be more constructive
The persons natural temperament, constitution and state at the time
What cases did Cambridge ghost club exclude
Ones that depend on the cases of uneducated persons
Explain the parallels between Mrs Vatas-Simpsons account of ghosts and those in tots
.2 ghost (male and female) .two children .presence of governess presumably, .strange noises and cry of infant .stays awake late and night then sees a women on the stairs .verbal parallels = 'how did that man get in and how did he get out' (convo in tots) .a man who appears occasionally on the stairs .
Give another classic witness of a ghost
Mrs C- ‘I plainly saw the figure of a female figure dressed in black’
What author did HJ criticise
Anne Radcliffe (mysteries of Udolpho)
What author did HJ praise
Wilkie Collins ‘the woman in White’
What did HJ say about the women in white by Wilkie Collins
‘Instead of the terrors of Udolpho we are treated to the terrors of a cheerful country house and the busy London lodgings. And there is no doubt that these were infinitely more terrible’
What did James say a good ghost story needed
To ‘be connected at a hindered points with the common objects of life’
Who’s farther have HJ the essence of a story about some dead servants and some children
Arthur Benson
What did HJ say had happened to his novella
It had been serialised
Why is Arthur bensons farther connected to the prologue
He told HJ an account of ghosts around a fire that was ‘the dimmest account’ from a person he ‘half knew’
What did HJ say about his conscious intention
Strikes people as being ‘larger than I deserve it should be thought’
What HJ quote suggests that tots is a pot boiler
‘I can only blush to see real substance read into them’
What inkling of hope is there that tots isn’t just a pot boiler
‘The truth was at the back of my head’ -HJ
Quote from HJ to suggest RRT was anticipated
‘Always grateful to the justifying commentator’
