| Description |
301 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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Illustrated by Robert Kraiza. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
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 ; The changeling / 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 / Edith Wharton -- Nymphs ; The children of lir / Katherine Tynan -- The princess and the hedge-pig / E. Nesbit -- A castle in the air ; The mermaid's chapel / May Kendall -- A ballad of victory / Dollie Radford -- When I was a witch / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Atavism ; The fairy goldsmith ; Madman's song / Elinor Wylie -- A haunted house / Virginia Woolf -- Acknowledgments -- About the editor. |
| Subject |
Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- 20th century -- Women authors.
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Women -- Literary collections.
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| Genre |
Gothic fiction.
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Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Short stories.
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Gothic poetry.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Goss, Theodora, editor.
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Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904, author.
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Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 1856-1935, author.
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Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930, author.
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Coleridge, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1861-1907, author.
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Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935, author.
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Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances), 1857-1944, author.
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Custance, Olive, 1874-1944, author.
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Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924, author.
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Carbery, Ethna, 1866-1902, author.
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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, author.
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Shorter, Dora Sigerson, 1866-1918, author.
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, author.
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Mew, Charlotte Mary, 1869-1928, author.
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935, author.
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Watson, Rosamund Marriott, 1863-1911, author.
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Chesson, Nora, 1871-1906, author.
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Tynan, Katharine, 1861-1931, author.
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Kendall, May, 1861-1943, author.
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Radford, Dollie, author.
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Wylie, Elinor, 1885-1928, author.
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, author.
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Robert Kraiza, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9781941360361 (paperback) : $16.00 |
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194136036X (paperback) |
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