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9780415167819

Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415167819

  • ISBN10:

    0415167817

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-04-21
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This anthology brings together twenty-eight lively and readable short stories by nineteenth-century women writers, including gothic tales to romances, detective fiction and ghost stories. It contains short fiction by well-known authors such as Maria Edgeworth, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Oliphant. Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Womenincludes: * a full scholarly introduction * biographies for each of the authors * full explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading * a critical commentary, publication details and historical context * a full and wide-ranging bibliography. The bibliography of resources and further reading will enable those interested in pursuing research on any author or topic to do so with ease, and a thematic index will enable teachers to select material best suited to their courses.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
INTRODUCTION 1(12)
THE LIMERICK GLOVES (1804)
13(24)
Maria Edgeworth
THE STORY OF SIR BERTRAND (1804)
37(6)
Anna L. Barbauld
COUSIN MARY (1824)
43(8)
Mary Russell Mitford
THE THREE DAMSELS (1827)
51(6)
David Lynsay
LADY EVELYN SAVILE'S THREE TRIALS (1832)
57(16)
Catherine Gore
THE MORTAL IMMORTAL (1833)
73(14)
Mary Shelley
SEFTON CHURCH (1834)
87(6)
Laetitia E. Landon
THE MANCHESTER MARRIAGE (1858)
93(24)
Elizabeth Gaskell
EVELINE'S VISITANT (1867)
117(12)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
SISTER JOHANNA'S STORY (1873)
129(14)
Amelia Edwards
THE MYSTERY AT NUMBER SEVEN (1877)
143(36)
Ellen Wood
A RAILWAY JOURNEY (1877)
179(12)
Lady Margaret Majendie
THE END OF HER JOURNEY (1887)
191(38)
Lucy Clifford
A WICKED VOICE (1890)
229(24)
Vernon Lee
A DREAM OF WILD BEES (1890)
253(6)
Olive Schreiner
A CROSS LINE (1893)
259(18)
George Egerton
URMI: THE STORY OF A QUEEN (1893)
277(6)
Cornelia Sorabji
THE PLEASURE-PILGRIM (1895)
283(24)
Ella D'Arcy
SUGGESTION (1895)
307(8)
Ada Leverson
A CORRESPONDENCE (1895)
315(18)
Netta Syrett
A KNOT OF RIBBON (1895)
333(8)
Laurence Alma-Tadema
AN IDYLL IN MILLINERY (1896)
341(22)
Menie Muriel Dowie
THE SWEET O'THE YEAR (1896)
363(6)
Ella Hepworth Dixon
ANOTHER FREAK (1896)
369(14)
Mary Angela Dickens
THE OTHER ANNA (1897)
383(18)
Evelyn Sharp
LUCY WREN (1897)
401(10)
Ada Radford
AMOR VINCIT OMNIA (1898)
411(14)
Flora Annie Steel
A STORY OF A WEDDING TOUR (1898)
425(16)
Margaret Oliphant
References and further reading 441

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