'The sick child': a portrait of tragedy and grief | Lord Ganesh
After the death of Annie Maude Campbell Dawe moved her father, Gilbert Campbell, from his usual florid romantic style to a narrative form. He was devastated by the loss caused by tuberculosis, and in that year he wrote a series of gothic stories about children lost through illness or accident. Yet in some sense 'the sick child' is not really about Annie's story but rather the medieval tale of La Belle Dame sans Merci"
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