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Restless spirits : ghost stories by American women, 1872-1926 / edited with an introduction by Catherine A. Lundie.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (x, 316 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585223718
  • 9780585223711
  • 1122054602
  • 9781122054607
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Restless spirits.DDC classification:
  • 813/.08733089287 20
LOC classification:
  • PS648.G48 R47 1996eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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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  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: 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.
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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.

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