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. Containing short fiction by well-known authors such as:
* Maria Edgeworth
* Mary Shelley
* Elizabeth Gaskell
* Margaret Oliphant
Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women also includes:
* a 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.
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 SAVILES 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 EVELINES VISITANT (1867) 117(12) Mary Elizabeth Braddon SISTER JOHANNAS 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 DArcy 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 OTHE 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
Harriet Devine Jump is Senior Lecturer in English at Edge Hill University College. Her recent publications include Mary Wollstonecraft: Writer (1994) and Women's Writing of the Romantic Period, 1789-1836 (1997). Women's Writing of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901 will be published in 1998.
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