The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women: 1800-World War II ed. A. Susan Williams (Xanadu, December 1992, 1-85480-190-2, £14.99, 566pp, hc, an)
Anthology of 34 stories tracing the development of female fantasy writers from 1806 to 1936.
- vii · Introduction · A. Susan Williams · in
- 1 · The Spectre; or, The Ruins of Belfont Priory · Sarah Wilkinson · ss A. Kemmish, 1806
- 20 · The Mortal Immortal: A Tale · Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · ss The Keepsake 1834, 1833
- 33 · Napoleon and the Spectre · Charlotte Brontë · ss C. Shorter, 1919; written 1833.
- 37 · The Old Nurse’s Story · Elizabeth Gaskell · nv Household Words Christmas 1852, uncredited.
- 57 · The Lifted Veil · George Eliot · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine July 1859, uncredited.
- 97 · Circumstance · Harriet Prescott Spofford · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1860, uncredited.
- 110 · The Phantom Coach · Amelia B. Edwards · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1864, as “Another Past Lodger Relates His Own Ghost Story”, uncredited.
- 123 · The Abbot’s Ghost: or, Maurice Treherne’s Temptation · A. M. Barnard · na The Flag of Our Union 1867
- 185 · Kentucky’s Ghost · Elizabeth Stuart Phelps · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1868, uncredited.
- 201 · The Ghost in the Cap’n Brown House · Harriet Beecher Stowe · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1870
- 211 · Behold It Was a Dream · Rhoda Broughton · ss Temple Bar November 1872
- 227 · The Secret Chamber · Margaret Oliphant · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine December 1876
- 255 · The Ghost of Charlotte Cray · Florence Marryat · nv Judy’s Annual 1879
- 272 · Lady Farquhar’s Old Lady, A True Ghost Story · Mrs. Molesworth · ss Tinsley’s Magazine December 1873
- 286 · In a Far-Off World · Olive Schreiner · vi Dreams by Olive Schreiner, Donohoe, 1890
- 288 · Death and the Woman · Gertrude Atherton · ss Vanity Fair (UK) 1892
- 293 · Man-Size in Marble · E. Nesbit · nv Home Chimes December 1887; dated 1886.
- 306 · The Banshee’s Warning · Mrs. J. H. Riddell · ss London Society Christmas 1867, as “Hertford O’Donnell’s Warning”
- 325 · Caulfield’s Crime · Alice Perrin · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1892
- 333 · The Wind in the Rosebush · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · nv Everybody’s Magazine February 1902, as by Mary E. Wilkins
- 350 · Sultana’s Dream · Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain · ss The Indian Ladies’ Magazine 1905
- 361 · The Woman with the Hood · L. T. Meade · ss The Weekly Scotsman December 1897
- 376 · If I Were a Man · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss Physical Culture July 1914
- 383 · Consequences · Willa Cather · ss McClure’s Magazine November 1915
- 402 · Kerfol · Edith Wharton · nv Scribner’s Magazine March 1916
- 424 · A Suburban Fairy Tale · Katherine Mansfield · ss 1917
- 428 · A Haunted House · Virginia Woolf · vi Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1921
- 430 · The Nature of the Evidence · May Sinclair · ss Fortune May 1923
- 441 · The Unbolted Door · Marie Belloc Lowndes · ss The Fortnightly Review November 1929
- 448 · The Buick Saloon · Mary O’Malley · ss The Cornhill Magazine June 1930
- 464 · Shambleau [Northwest Smith] · C. L. Moore · nv Weird Tales November 1933
- 492 · The Supper at Elsinore · Isak Dinesen · na Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen, Smith & Haas, 1934
- 537 · The English Gentleman’s Tale—The Gold Bride · Christina Stead · ss Salzburg Tales by Christina Stead, Appleton, 1934
- 545 · The Mask of Sacrifice · Margery Lawrence · ss The Tatler November 30 1923, as “The Mask”
- 559 · Notes on the Authors · [uncredited] · bg
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