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Jan 1, 1921 — Jan 1, 2009· 88 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · CHILDREN

Seon Manley

Also known as: Janet Helen Givens, Seon Givens

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>Janet Helen "Seon" Givens (1921-2009) and Mona "Gogo" Givens (1923-2008) were sisters who were raised in Connecticut and began collecting books as children. After college, they moved to New York City and became familiar faces in literary circles. Seon married Robert Manley, and Gogo married William Lewis. >Beginning in the early 1960s, Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis compiled over twenty anthologies which included subjects ranging from the natural world and science. The sisters drew inspiration for their anthologies from their private libraries and personal interests. Their main focus was collecting and publishing anthologies of stories about ghosts and the supernatural. From 1973 to 1979, the famous illustrator Edward Gorey created covers for eight titles by Manley & Lewis, all but one of which focused on tales by female authors.

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Ladies of Fantasy

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Selected and with introductions by Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis For two centuries women writers, turning to the world of imagination to express themselves, have produced outstanding fantasy tales. In this collection Joan Aiken takes us to a future where sunlight never filters through; Madame Blavatsky takes us into the past when a young man experiments with the occult; E. Nesbit takes us to a more romantic past where death waits for the unwary in a summer-house; and Jane Roberts tells of a reincarnation that is more like possession. The vigor and originality of the women writers represented in this collection point up the humor in their designation as "the gentle sex." Informative introductions to each story and biographical notes make this a collection to treasure as well as to enjoy, by the two experts who brought you Ladies of Horror, Mistresses of Mystery, and Grande Dames of Detection.

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Teen-age treasury of the arts

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Christmas ghosts

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Seventeen stories, by Dickens, Hawthorne, Campbell, Caldecott, and Stockton, describes a variety of encounters with holiday ghosts

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