www.litgothic.com
I found a link to a section called 'Sublime Anxiety: The Gothic Family and the Outsider', this then took me to several sections about Gothic content one of which grabbed my attention; 'Women and The Gothic'.
This section refers to the fact that many Gothic authors were women and that "the Gothic marketplace would seem to be one in which women would hold equal sway". It also mention women's roles within Gothic texts suggesting that women were "subject to numerous assaults on their virtue and to the tyranny of fathers, would-be lovers, and husbands".
The page has many references to both the roles of women in Gothic novels and the novels written by female writers. The suggestion is that female characters in Gothic novels are either peering anxiously over someone's shoulder at whatever monster may be lurking in the shadows or they are the monster themselves, such as Ann Ramsey in 'The Witch of Ravensworth' who "drinks blood and cannibalises infants".
The page also contains references to female Gothic authors such as Charlotte Smith and Ann Ward Radcliffe, the latter being the author of 'The Romance of the Forest' a stereotypical Gothic novel with 'mysterious threats, a ruined abbey, and an almost supernatural villain'.
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