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    The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our instincts believe the former; so that, out of this education, we retain the terror, and just believe enough to make it very troublesome whenever we are placed in circumstances that awaken it.


    — Catherine Crowe

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    Her collection The Night-side of Nature (1848) became her most popular work and was reprinted as recently as 2000. Though set in middle-class life they had complicated sensational plots while also commenting on the predicaments of Victorian women brought up in seclusion to be mistreated by men. She married an army officer Major John Crowe (1783–1860).

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