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Seon Manley

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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  • Cover of: Teen-age treasury of good humor.

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  • Cover of: Fun phantoms: tales of ghostly entertainment

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  • Cover of: Ladies of the Gothics: Tales of Romance and Terror by the Gentle Sex

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  • Cover of: Cat encounters: a cat-lover's anthology

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  • Cover of: Ladies of Fantasy: Two Centuries of Sinister Stories by the Gentle Sex

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Born 1921
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Subjects
Fiction, Short stories, Juvenile fiction, Women authors, Biography, Ghosts, Juvenile literature, Paranormal fiction, Supernatural, Children's literature, Children's stories, Detective and mystery stories, English Authors, English Ghost stories, American Ghost stories, American fiction, English fiction, Social life and customs, American Authors, Children's fiction, Ghost stories, History, Horror tales, Literary collections, Mystery and detective stories
Places
England, Eton College, Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.), India, Ireland, Italy, London (England), Long Island (N.Y.), Oxford, Padua, Polar regions, Rome, United States, University of Oxford, University of Padua
People
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), James Joyce (1882-1941), Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), Seon Manley, Beatrice Rappaccini, Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), Giacomo Rappaccini, Giovanni Guasconti, William Wilson, William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Time
19th century

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  • Janet Helen Givens
  • Seon Givens
  • Janet Manley

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November 23, 2022 Edited by Martha Carson Wade Edited without comment.
November 23, 2022 Edited by Martha Carson Wade Added bio note and link
September 5, 2008 Edited by RenameBot fix author name
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import