Says she to her neighbour, What? By an old Fashioned Englishman. By Mrs. Hofland. London: Minerva Press, 1817.

Says she to her neighbour, What? By an old Fashioned Englishman. By Mrs. Hofland. London: Minerva Press, 1817. The Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Novels. This novel bears the autograph and the bookplate of Harriot, duchess of St. Alban's. Gothic novel reading was not limited to the middle class, as in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.

The Wife and the Mistress. A Novel. By Mary Charlton. London: Minerva Press, 1802.

The Wife and the Mistress. A Novel. By Mary Charlton. London: Minerva Press, 1802. The Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Novels.

The Sorrows of Edith; or, the Hermitage of the Cliffs: a Descriptive Tale, Founded on Facts. By Mrs. Burke. London: B. Crosby, 1796.

The Sorrows of Edith; or, the Hermitage of the Cliffs: a Descriptive Tale, Founded on Facts. By Mrs. Burke. London: B. Crosby, 1796. The Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Novels. The "child of nature" heroine, Edith, takes her own life after suffering the rejection of her lover due to her lower social status.This volume bears the armorial bookplate of playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

The Victim of Seduction, exemplified in the Memoirs of Clara Montford. London: J. Bailey, 1790.

The Victim of Seduction, exemplified in the Memoirs of Clara Montford, Lady of the Rev. Lionel Montford, of Seldon, in Yorkshire, Who Was Seduced From Her Husband and Taken to Florence, Giving an Account of Her Residence There, the Tragical Death of Her Seducer, Her Fatal Departure, Her Arrival in England, Her Meeting with her Husband, and Miserable Death. London: J. Bailey, 1790. The Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Novels.

The Witch of Ravensworth; a Romance, in Two Volumes. By George Brewer. London: J. F. Hughes, 1808.

The Witch of Ravensworth; a Romance, in Two Volumes. By George Brewer. London: J. F. Hughes, 1808. The Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Novels. See pages 3 and 4 for a lurid description of Ann Ramsey, who drinks blood and cannabalizes infants. Even the most hardened Gothic reader must have been shocked by her transformation into the saintly Gertrude at the end of the novel.

Alexena; or, the Castle of Santa Marco. London: Minerva Press, 1817.

Alexena; or, the Castle of Santa Marco. London: Minerva Press, 1817. The Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Novels. An adaptation of Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. The villainous Count Baretto imprisons and menaces three maidens in their turn: Alexena, Evelene, and Ellena.