Restless Spirits (anthology)

Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872-1976 is a 1997 anthology edited by Catherine A. Laudie.

Editions

• 1997. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 1558490566.

Contents

• Introduction

I. Until Death Do Us Part ... and After: Marriage

• Edith Wharton, "The Lady's Maid's Bell" (1902)
• Mary Austin, "The Readjustment" (1908)
• Olivia Howard Dunbar, "The Shell of Sense" (1908)
• Zora Neale Hurston, "Spunk" (1925)
• Hildegarde Hawthorne, "A Legend of Sonora" (1891)

II. The Tie that Binds: Motherhood

• Josephine Daskam Bacon, "The Children" (1913)
• Georgia Wood Pangborn, "Broken Glass" (1911)
• Cornelia A. P. Comer, "The Little Gray Ghost" (1912)
• Katharine Holland Brown, "Hunger" (1907)
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Giant Wistaria (1891)

III. The "Other" Woman: Sexuality

• M. E. M. Davis, "At La Glorieuse" (1898)
• Ellen Glasgow, "The Past" (1920)
• Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, "Secret Chambers" (1909)
• Kate Chopin, "Her Letters" (1895)

IV. Madwomen or Mad Women? The Medicalization of the Female

• Mary Heaton Vorse, "The Second Wife" (1912)
• Harriett Prescott Spofford, "Her Story" (1872)
• Josephine Daskam Bacon, "The Gospel" (1913)
• Helen R. Hull, "Clay-Shuttered Doors" (1926)

V. Shades of Discontent: Widows and Spinsters

• Anne Page, "Lois Benson's Love Story" (1890)
• Annie Trumbull Slosson, "A Dissatisfied Soul" (1904)
• Gertrude Morton, "Mistress Marian's Light" (1889)
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, "Luella Miller" (1902)