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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| Born | 1921 |
| Died | 2009 |
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![Cover of: A gathering of ghosts: a treasury: Field [and others]](//covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12940297-M.jpg "Cover of: A gathering of ghosts: a treasury: Field [and others]")
![Cover of: A gathering of ghosts: a treasury: Field [and others]](http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12940297-M.jpg "Cover of: A gathering of ghosts: a treasury: Field [and others]")
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| Born | 1921 |
| Died | 2009 |
Subjects
Fiction, Short stories, Juvenile fiction, Supernatural, Women authors, Biography, Ghosts, Juvenile literature, Paranormal fiction, American fiction, Children's literature, Children's stories, Detective and mystery stories, English Authors, English Ghost stories, English fiction, American Ghost stories, Children's fiction, Social life and customs, American Authors, Ghost stories, History, Horror tales, Literary collections, Mystery and detective storiesPlaces
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 PaduaPeople
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 centuryID Numbers
- OLID: OL1460138A
- ISNI: 0000000084332248
- Library of Congress Names: n79060996
- VIAF: 23417524
- Wikidata: Q84558538
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q84558538
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Alternative names
- Janet Helen Givens
- Seon Givens
- Janet Manley
| October 30, 2025 | Edited by WikidataBot | [sync_author_identifiers_with_wikidata] add wikidata remote identifiers |
| November 23, 2022 | Edited by M C W | Edited without comment. |
| November 23, 2022 | Edited by M C W | Added bio note and link |
| September 5, 2008 | Edited by RenameBot | fix author name |
| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | initial import |