The First Female Vampire Novel Written in English
Many readers may think that Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 work Carmilla was the first novel in English to feature a female vampire - but what if we told you that wasn't the case?
Charles Wilkins Webber's Yieger's Cabinet. Spiritual Vampirism: The History of Etherial Softdown came out 20 years before Le Fanu's much better-known vampire novel. It was written as an attack on the social reformer, hydrotherapy advocate, and feminist Mary Gove Nichols, who features as the eponymous vampire, and with whom Webber had, to put it lightly, fallen out.
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