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Medusa's daughters : magic and monstrosity from women writers on the fin-de-siécle /

Medusa's daughters is a sinister Gothic delight, full of unrepentant witches, ghosts, dryads, and changelings. Goss is an expert guide to the strange codes of fin-de-siécle patriarch and the bold, monstrous women who defied them.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904 (Author), Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 1856-1935 (Author), Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 (Author), Coleridge, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1861-1907 (Author), Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935 (Author), Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances), 1857-1944 (Author), Custance, Olive, 1874-1944 (Author), Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924 (Author), Carbery, Ethna, 1866-1902 (Author), Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 (Author), Shorter, Dora Sigerson, 1866-1918 (Author), Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 (Author), Mew, Charlotte Mary, 1869-1928 (Author), Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935 (Author), Watson, Rosamund Marriott, 1863-1911 (Author), Chesson, Nora, 1871-1906 (Author), Tynan, Katharine, 1861-1931 (Author), Kendall, May, 1861-1943 (Author), Radford, Dollie (Author), Wylie, Elinor, 1885-1928 (Author), Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 (Author)
Other Authors: Goss, Theodora (Editor), Robert Kraiza (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Phildelphia, PA : Lanternfish Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Gothic fiction (Literary genre) > 20th century > Women authors.
Women > Literary collections.
Gothic fiction.
Literary collections.
Poetry.
Short stories.
Gothic poetry.
Fantasy fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Theodora Goss
  • An Egyptian cigarette / Kate Chopin
  • The singer ; All hallows night / Lizette Woodworth Reese
  • Luella Miller / Mary Wilkins Freeman
  • The witch ; The white women ; The other side of a mirror / Mary Coleridge
  • Dionea / Vernon Lee (Violet Paget)
  • The dryads / A. Mary F. Robinson
  • The white witch ; The changeling / Olive Custance
  • Man-size in marble / E. Nesbit
  • The love-talker ; Niamh / Ethna Carbery (Anne MacManus) ; The princess Baladina, her adventure / Willa Cather
  • The watcher in the woods ; The white witch / Dora Sigerson Shorter
  • Bewitched / Edith Wharton
  • The farmer's bride ; The changeling / Charlotte New
  • The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Ballad the bird-bridge ; The orchard of the moon / Rosamund Marriott Watson
  • A white night / Charlotte Mew
  • A drowned girl to her lover ; Hertha / Nora Hopper Chesson
  • The hermit and the wild woman / Edith Wharton
  • Nymphs ; The children of lir / Katherine Tynan
  • The princess and the hedge-pig / E. Nesbit
  • A castle in the air ; The mermaid's chapel / May Kendall
  • A ballad of victory / Dollie Radford
  • When I was a witch / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Atavism ; The fairy goldsmith ; Madman's song / Elinor Wylie
  • A haunted house / Virginia Woolf
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the editor.