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The Lifted veil : the book of fantastic literature by women, 1800-World War II

Title
The Lifted veil : the book of fantastic literature by women, 1800-World War II / edited and introduced by A. Susan Williams.
Publication
London : Xanadu, 1992.

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Additional Authors
Williams, A. Susan.
Description
xv, 566 pages; 23 cm
Alternative Title
Book of fantastic literature by women, 1800-World War II
Subject
  • Geschichte 1800-1936
  • Fantasy fiction > Women authors
  • Short stories > Women authors
  • Fantasy fiction > Women authors
  • Short stories > Women authors
  • Anthologie
  • Frauenliteratur
  • Fantastische Literatur
  • Englisch
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • Fiction.
  • Romans.
Contents
The spectre / Sarah Wilkinson -- The mortal immortal / Mary Shelley -- Napoleon and the spectre / Charlotte Bronte -- The old nurse's story / Elizabeth Gaskell -- The lifted veil / George Eliot -- Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford -- The phantom coach / Amelia B. Edwards -- The Abbot's ghost / 'A.M. Barnard' [Louisa May Alcott] -- Kentucky's ghost / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- The ghost in the Cap'n Brown house / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Behold it was a dream / Rhoda Broughton -- The secret chamber / Margaret Oliphant -- The ghost of Charlotte Cray / Florence Marryat -- Lady Farquhar's old lady, a true ghost story / Mrs [Mary Louisa] Molesworth -- In a far-off world / Olive Schreiner -- Death and the woman / Gertrude Atherton -- Man-size in marble / Edith Nesbit -- The Banshee's warning / Mrs J.H. [Charlotte Eliza Lawson] Riddell -- Caulfield's crime / Alice Perrin -- The wind in the rose-bush / Mary E. Wilkins -- Sultana's dream / Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain -- The woman with the hood / L.T. [Elizabeth Thomasina] Meade -- If I were a man / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Consequences / Willa Cather -- A suburban fairy tale / Katherine Mansfield -- A haunted house / Virginia Woolf -- The nature of the evidence / May Sinclair -- The unbolted door / Mrs Belloc Lowndes -- The Buick saloon / Mary O'Malley -- Shambleau / C.L. Moore -- The supper at Elsinore / 'Isak' Dinesen [Karen] (Dinesen) Blixen] -- The English gentleman's tale -- the gold bride / Christina Stead -- The mask of sacrifice / Margaret Lawrence.
ISBN
  • 1854801902
  • 9781854801906
OCLC
  • ocm28013535
  • 28013535
  • SCSB-1984126
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library