A first look at "Who's the Murderer?" by Eleanor Sleath
Mackley, J. S. (2013) A first look at "Who's the Murderer?" by Eleanor Sleath. Paper presented to: Fantastic Worlds: A Joint Symposium on Fantasy, Science Fiction and Gothic Literature, The University of Northampton, 2013-11-22.
"Who's the Murderer?" was published in 1802 by Eleanor Sleath, who is named as an author of one of the 'horrid novels' in Northanger Abbey. This paper discusses some details of what is known about Eleanor Sleath, and discusses the editing process as well as giving a short summary of the book and some of the gothic elements, with particular reference to Sleath's principal influence, Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udulpho.