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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Williams, A. Susan
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Carroll & Graf, 1992.
Subjects:	Fantasy fiction, American > Women authors. Fantasy fiction, English > Women authors. Short stories, American > Women authors. Short stories, English > Women authors. Short stories. Nouvelles. short stories. Fantasy fiction, American > Women authors Short stories Short stories, English > Women authors Short fiction. Fantastic fiction.

Table of 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.