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This is a group for students of JMU's ENG329: Haunted Victorians in the fall of 2025. 

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Posted by Chloe Holloway on Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 18:43
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Posted by Chloe Holloway on Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 18:20
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Posted by Maddie Baldwin on Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 14:53

This is another location mentioned as a spot where the Anglo-Indians would flee to avoid the hot summers of Ludlow. It's characterized by its mountains and cooler climate that would offer refuge from the heat of India that Anglo-Indians were not accustomed to. 

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Posted by Maddie Baldwin on Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 14:50

This is a location that is mentioned by Edith Chalmers in her letter. It is where the previous owners of the house, Briarwood, have fled to. 

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Posted by Maddie Baldwin on Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 14:44

This is the primary setting for the narrative. The house is located in Kantia, which is a city within Lucknow, India.  "The city of Lucknow, the former capital of Awadh during the Mughal era [is] a site of continuous contention in colonial India since the eighteenth century," (Biswas). 

 

Visions: “If You See Her Face You Die”: Orientalist Gothic and Colonialism in Bithia Croker’s Indian Ghost Stories.

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Posted by Maddie Baldwin on Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 14:36

At the beginning of the story, Aggie and her family are placed in a bungalow at Dilkousha. This is where the narrator begins his/her life with Aggie. 

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Posted by Maddie Baldwin on Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 14:29

City in Gujarat, India. 

Posted by Sadie McClain on Wednesday, December 3, 2025 - 11:42
Posted by Sadie McClain on Wednesday, December 3, 2025 - 11:40

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