Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women: A Routledge Anthology

by HarrietDevineJump (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $59.00

  This anthology brings together twenty-eight lively and readable short stories by nineteenth-century women writers, including gothic tales to romances, detective fiction and ghost stories. Containing short fiction by well-known authors such as:
  * Maria Edgeworth
  * Mary Shelley
  * Elizabeth Gaskell
  * Margaret Oliphant
  Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women also includes:
  * a scholarly introduction
  * biographies for each of the authors
  * full explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading
  * a critical commentary, publication details and historical context
  * a full and wide-ranging bibliography
  The bibliography of resources and further reading will enable those interested in pursuing research on any author or topic to do so with ease, and a thematic index will enable teachers to select material best suited to their courses.