Mrs. Nicholson, our resident Victorian literature instructor, occasionally strays into fiction, including her epistolary novella, The Letters of Magdalen Montague (Kauffmann Publishing, 2011; Chrism Press, 2021), and her Gothic novels, A Bloody Habit (Ignatius Press, 2018) and Brother Wolf (Chrism Press, 2021). A former assistant executive editor for Dappled Things, she is an assistant editor for the Saint Austin Review (StAR), as well as the editor of several Ignatius Critical Editions of the classics and has collaborated with other editors to provide footnotes for numerous other works. Her work has appeared in the National Catholic Register and Touchstone, as well as with First Things and The Catholic Thing. By day, she and her husband, Dr. Sam Nicholson (Logic/Philosophy instructor), homeschool their six children. By night, Mrs. Nicholson reads the Victorians, writes Gothic novels, and cares for small children. Fun facts: Mrs. Nicholson has an extremely low tolerance for scary books and movies. She's still petrified of "The Speckled Band", and won't sleep in a room where the bed is under a vent. Also, one of Mrs. Nicholson's numerous sisters-in-law is middle school writing instructor Mrs. Bonnie Donlon. For more information, visit: eleanorbourgnicholson.com.

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See Courses & Videos

• Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) (Victorian Classics) 

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847) (Victorian Classics) 

• The Nineteenth-Century Novel (Mansfield Park, Oliver Twist, & North and South)

• The Victorian Detective (Victorian Classics

• The Golden Age of Mystery Fiction

• Literary-Critical Paper: Independent Study (available for all of Mrs. Nicholson's courses, live or recorded)

• Introduction to the Nineteenth-Century (Emma, David Copperfield, The Warden, & Barchester Towers) (Victorian Classics)

• Christmas with Dickens (Victorian Classics)

• Gothic Book Club

• Jane Austen, Part One

• Jane Austen, Part Two

• The Brontë Sisters  (Victorian Classics)

• Sensation Genre Novels (Victorian Classics)

• Middlemarch (Victorian Classics)

• Our Mutual Friend (Victorian Classics)

• Nicholas Nickleby (Victorian Classics)

Books

• Dracula: Ignatius Critical Editions (editor)

• Mansfield Park: Ignatius Critical Edition (editor)

• Sense and Sensibility: Ignatius Critical Editions (editor)

• A Bloody Habit (Ignatius Press, 2017)

• The Letters of Magdalen Montague (Chrism Press, 2021)

• Brother Wolf (Chrism Press, 2021)

• The Hound of the Lord (children’s biography of St. Dominic, Ignatius 2023)

• Wake of Malice (Chrism Press, 2024)

Sue Kresich is from Northwest Indiana and a Monitor for HSC. She is active at her home parish as a catechist and taking care of the church environment. She has been involved with the Scouts as a Religious Emblem Coordinator for the diocese for over ten years. Her hobbies include reading and going on long walks.