The Female Hypnotist: stories from the Victorian and Edwardian eras / edited by Donald K. Hartman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hartman, Donald K., editor.

Series:

Hypnotism in Victorian and Edwardian era fiction ; volume 4.

hypnotism in Victorian and Edwardian era fiction ; volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hypnotism and crime--Fiction.

Hypnotism and crime.

Hypnotism in literature.

Mesmerism in literature.

Murder in literature.

Mental suggestion.

Animal magnetism--Fiction.

Animal magnetism.

Murder--Fiction.

Murder.

Physical Description:

xi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First Edition

Place of Publication:

Buffalo, New York : Themes and settings in fiction press, 2025.

Summary:

This is the fourth volume in the Hypnotism in Victorian and Edwardian Era Fiction series, published by Themes & Settings in Fiction Press. In addition to short stories and novels about hypnotism, which were highly popular in the Victorian and Edwardian periods, a less known and less appreciated subset of stories involved women characters having hypnotic powers. Included in the volume are fourteen short tales about female hypnotists; some written by notable authors and others by authors less known today, yet popular in their time. Several of the stories included in The Female Hypnotist initially appeared in fairly obscure newspapers and journals, but it is hoped that their reappearace here will prove to be of value to modern readers and researchers.

Contents:

Introduction / Forward

Amy Ellingham / biographical notes / notes on the text / A Pair of Eyes; or, Modern Magic

Louisa May Alcott / A Scientific Revenge

Marie Madison / The Burglar's Blunder

Richard Marsh / Facts in the Ratcliff Case

Edward Page Mitchell / Suggestion

(translated by Edyth Kirkwood) / One Woman's Will

G.F.G. / Suggested Suicide

Erckmann-Chatrian / John Barrington Cowles

An Apt Pupil Arthur Conan Doyle / An Apt Pupil

Arthur Conan Doyle / Phillip Darrell's Wife

B.L. Farjeon / An Expiriment in Conscience

Montefiore Bienenstok / Madame Valprez

Emeric Hulme-Beaman / The Parasite

Arthur Conal Doyle / The Woman with the 'Oily Eyes'

Dick Donovan / The Female Hypnotist in Fiction, 1840-1910

Notes:

Includes bibliographical and biographical notes.

ISBN:

0960082336

9780960082339

OCLC:

1499529679