Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women
eBook - ePub

Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women

A Routledge Anthology

  1. 464 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women

A Routledge Anthology

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. THE LIMERICK GLOVES
  7. THE STORY OF SIR BERTRAND
  8. COUSIN MARY
  9. THE THREE DAMSELS
  10. LADY EVELYN SAVILE’S THREE TRIALS
  11. THE MORTAL IMMORTAL
  12. SEFTON CHURCH
  13. THE MANCHESTER MARRIAGE
  14. EVELINE’S VISITANT
  15. SISTER JOHANNA’S STORY
  16. THE MYSTERY AT NUMBER SEVEN
  17. A RAILWAY JOURNEY
  18. THE END OF HER JOURNEY
  19. A WICKED VOICE
  20. A DREAM OF WILD BEES
  21. A CROSS LINE
  22. URMI: THE STORY OF A QUEEN
  23. THE PLEASURE-PILGRIM
  24. SUGGESTION
  25. A CORRESPONDENCE
  26. A KNOT OF RIBBON
  27. AN IDYLL IN MILLINERY
  28. THE SWEET O’THE YEAR
  29. ANOTHER FREAK
  30. THE OTHER ANNA
  31. LUCY WREN
  32. AMOR VINCIT OMNIA
  33. A STORY OF A WEDDING TOUR
  34. REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING