The Old Nurse's Story
Elizabeth Gaskell
A nurse recalls the winter she and a little orphan girl spent at a Northumberland manor haunted by a phantom child and a terrible family secret. Gaskell's 1852 tale is a model of the Victorian ghost story.
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