The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women, 1800—World War II

The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women, 1800—World War II

BookThe Spectre; or, The Ruins of Belfont Priory
EditorA. Susan Williams
Introduction byA. Susan Williams
PublisherCarroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.
Copyright Holder (Selection)A. Susan Williams
Copyright Holder (Introduction/Prologue)A. Susan Williams
Published in/by Arrangement withXanadu Publications Ltd
Contributing WriterSarah Wilkinson, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards, A. M. Barnard, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rhoda Broughton, Margaret Oliphant, Florence Marryat, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Olive Schreiner, Gertrude Atherton, E. Nesbit, Mrs. J. H. Riddell, Alice Perrin, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, L. T. Meade, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, May Sinclair, Mrs Belloc Lowndes, Mary O'Malley, C. L. Moore, Isak Dinesen, Christina Stead, Margery Lawrence
SeriesNorthwest Smith
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
LocationNew York
Copyright1992
Pages / Font566 pages
ISBN 100-88184-913-8
ChaptersIntroduction Sarah Wilkinson, The Spectre; or, The Ruins of Belfont Priory c. 1806 (UK) Mary Shelley, The Mortal Immortal, A Tale 1833 (UK) Charlotte Bronte, Napoleon and the Spectre completed 1833 (UK) Elizabeth Gaskell, The Old Nurse's Story 1852 (UK) George Eliot, The Lifted Veil 1859 (UK) Harriet Prescott Spofford, Circumstance 1863 (USA) Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach 1864 (UK) 'A. M. Barnard' [Louisa May Alcott], The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation 1867 (USA) Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Kentucky's Ghost 1869 (USA) Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House 1871 (USA) Rhoda Broughton, Behold It Was a Dream 1873 (UK) Margaret Oliphant, The Secret Chamber 1876 (UK) Florence Marryat, The Ghost of Charlotte Cray 1883 (UK/India) Mrs [Mary Louisa] Molesworth, Lady Farquhar's Old Lady, A True Ghost Story 1888 (UK) Olive Schreiner, In a Far-Off World 1891 (South Africa) Gertrude Atherton, Death and the Woman 1892 (USA) Edith Nesbit, Man-Size in Marble 1893 (UK) Mrs. J. H. [Charlotte Eliza Lawson] Riddell, The Banshee's Warning 1894 (N. Ireland/UK) Alice Perrin, Caulfield's Crime 1901 (India) Mary E. Wilkins, The Wind in the Rose-Bush 1902 (USA) Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Sultana's Dream 1905 (India [Bangladesh]) L. T. [Elizabeth Thomasina] Meade, The Woman with the Hood 1908 (UK) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, If I Were a Man 1914 (USA) Willa Cather, Consequences 1915 (USA) Edith Wharton, Kerfol 1916 (USA) Katherine Mansfield, A Suburban Fairy Tale 1917 (New Zealand) Virginia Woolf, A Haunted House 1921 (UK) May Sinclair, The Nature of the Evidence 1923 (UK) Mrs Belloc Lowndes, The Unbolted Door 1929 (UK) Mary O'Malley, The Buick Saloon 1931 (UK/Ireland) C. L. Moore, Shambleau 1933 (USA) 'Isak' Dinesen [Karen (Dinesen) Blixen], The Supper at Elsinore 1934 (Denmark/Kenya) Christina Stead, The English Gentleman's Tale — The Gold Bride 1934 (Australia) Margery Lawrence, The Mask of Sacrifice 1936 (UK) Notes on the Authors Acknowledgments
NotesManufactured in Great Britain
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