Clemence Housman invented her gothic story to entertain the women in her wood-engraving class in London in 1884. She first published "The Were-Wolf" in the 1890 Christmas number of Atalanta, where it was illustrated by Everard Hopkins. In 1896 she collaborated with her brother, Laurence Housman, to produce an illustrated edition of The Were-Wolf for John Lane at The Bodley Head. In addition to authoring the text, Clemence Housman wood-engraved the 6 illustrations, decorated title page, and illuminated initial designed by her brother, Laurence Housman. The COVE digital edition is likewise a collaborative work, produced by the W2018 graduate class in Digital Publishing in the Literatures of Modernity program at Ryerson University, with Professor Lorraine Janzen Kooistra acting as Editor in Chief.
Editorial Apparatus
- Editorial Introduction to The Were-Wolf |
- Textual History and Contemporary Reception of Clemence Housman’s "The Were-Wolf" |
- Brief Biographies of Clemence and Laurence Housman |
- Clemence Housman and Feminism in the 1890s |
- Representing the Fin-de-Siècle New Woman and Aesthete |
- 1890s Print Revival and the Book Beautiful |
- Wood-Engraving as an Art and a Trade |
- Lycanthropic Women and Victorian Sexual Dissidence |
- Scandinavian Myths and Grimm's Tales in Clemence Housman's The Were-Wolf |
- The Were-Wolf, British Folklore, and the Colour White |
- Transforming The Wolf in Words: White Fell and The Importance of Names |
- The Double in Gothic Fiction |
- Christian Soteriology in Fin-de-Siècle Literature and Culture |
- Blood in "The Were-Wolf" |
- Bibliography of Resources for Clemence Housman's The Were-Wolf
- Magazine and Book Illustrations for The Were-Wolf |