Angela Carter also had a big impact on her, and in addition her work evinces the influence of Virginia Woolf and other early feminist writers like Elizabeth Bowen and Elizabeth Taylor. Byatt, ‘who were at the heart of a sort of postmodern return to Victorian life and fiction’. Waters herself has acknowledged the influence of Dickens and of nineteenth-century ‘gothic writers’ like Wilkie Collins, Mary Shelley and the Brontës, alongside twentieth-century writers like John Fowles and A. Described by reviewers as lesbian fictions with metafictional, metahistorical and neo-Gothic traits, these novels display a striking generic hybridity, with elements of the sensation novel, the historical romance, the war novel, the London novel and the trauma novel, among others. Sarah Waters is the author of six bestselling and prize-winning novels: Tipping the Velvet (1998), Affinity (1999), Fingersmith (2002), The Night Watch (2006), The Little Stranger (2009) and The Paying Guests (2014).
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