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Medusa's daughters : magic and monstrosity from women writers on the fin-de-siécle
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Medusa's daughters is a sinister Gothic delight, full of unrepentant witches, ghosts, dryads, and changelings. Goss is an expert guide to the strange codes of fin-de-siécle patriarch and the bold, ...
Medusa's daughters is a sinister Gothic delight, full of unrepentant witches, ghosts, dryads, and changelings. Goss is an expert guide to the strange codes of fin-de-siécle patriarch and the bold, monstrous women who defied them.
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- Creator
- edited by Theodora Goss ; illustrated by Robert Kraiza
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Goss, Theodora, editor
- Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904, author
- Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 1856-1935, author
- Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930, author
- Coleridge, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1861-1907, author
- Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935, author
- Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances), 1857-1944, author
- Custance, Olive, 1874-1944, author
- Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924, author
- Carbery, Ethna, 1866-1902, author
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, author
- Shorter, Dora Sigerson, 1866-1918, author
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, author
- Mew, Charlotte Mary, 1869-1928, author
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935, author
- Watson, Rosamund Marriott, 1863-1911, author
- Chesson, Nora, 1871-1906, author
- Tynan, Katharine, 1861-1931, author
- Kendall, May, 1861-1943, author
- Radford, Dollie, author
- Wylie, Elinor, 1885-1928, author
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, author
- Robert Kraiza, illustrator
- Publication
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- Phildelphia, PA : Lanternfish Press, [2020]
- ©2020
- Physical Details
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- 301 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781941360361, 194136036X
- OCLC
- on1128030773
- Introduction / Theodora Goss -- An Egyptian cigarette / Kate Chopin -- The singer ; All hallows night / Lizette Woodworth Reese -- Luella Miller / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- The witch ; The white women ; The other side of a mirror / Mary Coleridge -- Dionea / Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) -- The dryads / A. Mary F. Robinson -- The white witch ; The changeling / Olive Custance -- Man-size in marble / E. Nesbit -- The love-talker ; Niamh / Ethna Carbery (Anne MacManus) ; The princess Baladina, her adventure / Willa Cather -- The watcher in the woods ; The white witch / Dora Sigerson Shorter -- Bewitched / Edith Wharton -- The farmer's bride ; Charlotte New -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Ballad the bird-bridge ; The orchard of the moon / Rosamund Marriott Watson -- A white night / Charlotte Mew -- A drowned girl to her lover ; Hertha / Nora Hopper Chesson -- The hermit and the wild woman / Nymphs ; The children of lir / Katherine Tynan -- The princess and the hedge-pig / A castle in the air ; The mermaid's chapel / May Kendall -- A ballad of victory / Dollie Radford -- When I was a witch / Atavism ; The fairy goldsmith ; Madman's song / Elinor Wylie -- A haunted house / Virginia Woolf -- Acknowledgments -- About the editor
Subjects
- Women -- United States -- Literary collections.
- Women -- England -- Literary collections.
- Women -- Ireland -- Literary collections.
- American literature -- Women authors.
- English literature -- Women authors.
- Irish literature -- Women authors.
- American literature -- 20th century.
- English literature -- 20th century.
- Irish literature -- 20th century.
- Literature -- Collections.
- Gothic literature.