Candace Ward 
Great Short Stories by English and Irish Women 

This select anthology spans 200 years of Anglo-Irish literature by women writers, ranging from the age of Romanticism to the modern era. Its short stories recount episodes of direst tragedy and triumphant heroism, offering a remarkable depth of experience. Rich in the splendors of Gothic fiction, the tales abound in family curses and haunted manors, melodramatic acts of wild passion, and frequent visitations by ghosts and other supernatural creatures.

Featured stories include George Eliot’s horror tale, ‘The Lifted Veil’; ‘The Mortal Immortal, ‘ a fable by
Frankenstein creator Mary Shelley; Mary Braddon’s ‘The Cold Embrace’; and Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘The Demon Lover.’ Additional contributors include Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Rosa Mulholland, Jane Barlow, Ella D’Arcy, May Sinclair, and others.

Зміст

Maria Edgeworth, ‘The Limerick Gloves’

Anna Maria Fielding Hall, ‘The Last of the Line’

Mary Shelley, ‘The Mortal Immortal: A Tale’

Charlotte Brontë, ‘Napoleon and the Spectre’

Mary Anne Hoare, ‘The Knitted Collar’

Elizabeth Gaskell, ‘The Old Nurse’s Story’

George Eliot, ‘The Lifted Veil’

Mary E. Braddon, ‘The Cold Embrace’

Rosa Mulholland, ‘Not to Be Taken at Bed-Time’

Ella D’Arcy, ‘Irremediable’

Jane Barlow, ‘M’Neills’ Tiger-Sheep’

Charlotte Riddell, ‘Out in the Cold’

E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross, ‘Great-Uncle Mc Carthy’

May Sinclair, ‘Lena Wrace’

Elizabeth Bowen, ‘The Demon Lover’