407 "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell
The History of Literature
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The Little Girl Who Sees Something That Others Don't
"I've read an argument that it's artistically better than Dickens's idea," she says. "We do get a lot of that in Gaskell's ending too and there's also something very spooky about these people, a small number of people living in this house" She adds: "This young girl is suddenly a portal to something very frightening."
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