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Restless spirits :

Restless spirits : ghost stories by American women, 1872-1926 / edited with an introduction by Catherine A. Lundie. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, �1996. - 1 online resource (x, 316 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references.

I. Until Death Do Us Part ... and After: Marriage : The lady's maid's bell / Edith Wharton -- The readjustment / Mary Austin -- The shell of sense / Olivia Howard Dunbar -- Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston -- A legend of Sonora / Hildegarde Hawthorne -- II. The Tie That Binds: Motherhood : The children / Josephine Daskam Bacon -- Broken glass / Georgia Wood Pangborn -- The little gray ghost / Cornelia A.P. Comer -- Hunger / Katharine Holland Brown -- The giant wistaria / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- III. The "Other" Woman: Sexuality : At La Glorieuse / M.E.M. Davis -- The past / Ellen Glasgow -- Secret chambers / Mrs. Wilson Woodrow -- Her letters / Kate Chopin -- IV. Madwomen or Mad Women? The Medicalization of the Female : The second wife / Mary Heaton Vorse -- Her story / Harriett Prescott Spofford -- The gospel / Josephine Daskam Bacon -- Clasy-shuttered doors / Helen R. Hull -- V. Shades of Discontent: Widows and Spinsters : Lois Benson's love story / Anne Page -- A dissatisfied soul / Annie Trumbull Slosson -- Mistress marian's light / Gertrude Morton -- Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.

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Twenty-two ghost tales by known and unknown writers. They range from Harriet Prescott Spofford's Her Story, on a woman sent to a madhouse by an unloving husband, to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Giant Wistaria, written in defense of suicide.


Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.


Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212


English.

0585223718 9780585223711 1122054602 9781122054607




1800-1999


Ghost stories, American.
American fiction--Women authors.
American fiction--20th century.
American fiction--19th century.
Paranormal fiction.
Women--Fiction.
FICTION--General.
American fiction.
American fiction--Women authors.
Ghost stories, American.
Paranormal fiction.
Women.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
American Literature.


Fiction.
Electronic books.
Occult fiction.
Electronic books.

PS648.G48 / R47 1996eb

813/.08733089287