Nora Gilbert is a professor of literary and film studies at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship (Stanford University Press, 2013) and Gone Girls, 1684-1901: Flights of Feminist Resistance in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel (Oxford University Press, 2023), and coeditor of Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice (SUNY Press, 2026).
Nora Gilbert
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The Lost Ending of “Gaslight” That You Didn’t Know You Needed
The only way to really understand the term is to sit down and watch the harrowing psychological film from which it got its name.
