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Queens of the Southern Gothic

Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor

If you enjoy exploring representations of the American South — in texts as varied as A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Help Nicola Onyett suggests the work of mid-twentieth-century writers Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor might also appeal to you

Elizabeth Taylor as Leonora Penderton in Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)

Tennessee Williams summed up the tragicomedy of the Southern experience in general, and the Southern writer in particular, in this memorable vignette:

(Williams, ‘Person-to-Person’ in New York Times 1955, quoted in Lahr 2014)

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