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
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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.