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Medusa's daughters : magic and monstrosity from women writers of the fin-de-siécle / edited by Theodora Goss.
Van Pelt Library PN3448.G68 M44 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- 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.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--20th century--Women authors.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre).
- Women--Literary collections.
- Women.
- Women authors.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Gothic poetry.
- Gothic fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Poetry.
- Short stories.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 301 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Phildelphia, PA : Lanternfish Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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 (Anna MacManus) ; The princess Baladina, her adventure / Willa Cather
- The watcher in the wood ; The white witch / Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Bewitched / Edith Wharton
- The farmer's bride ; The changeling / Charlotte Mew
- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Ballad the bird-bride ; 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.
- Notes:
- Illustrated by Robert Kraiza.
- ISBN:
- 9781941360361
- 194136036X
- OCLC:
- 1128030773
- Publisher Number:
- 99988006807
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