The Lifted Veil (anthology)

The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women, 1800 - World War II is a 1992 anthology edited and introduced by A. Susan Williams.

Original planned title: The Penguin Book of Classic Fantasy by Women. see also: The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1991)

Editions

• 1992. Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., New York.

Contents

• Introduction
• "The Spectre; or, The Ruins of Belfont Priory" / Sarah Wilkinson (c. 1806, UK)
• "The Mortal Immortal, A Tale" / Mary Shelley (1833, UK)
• "Napoleon and the Spectre" / Charlotte Bronte (completed 1833, UK)
• "The Old Nurse's Story" / Elizabeth Gaskell (1852, UK)
• "The Lifted Veil" / George Eliot (1859, UK)
• "Circumstance" / Harriet Prescott Spofford (1863, USA)
• "The Phantom Coach" / Amelia B. Edwards (1864, UK)
• "The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation" / "A. M. Barnard" [Louisa May Alcott] (1867, USA)
• "Kentucky's Ghost" / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1869, USA)
• "The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House" / Harriet Beecher Stowe (1871, USA)
• "Behold It Was a Dream" / Rhoda Broughton (1873, UK)
• "The Secret Chamber" / Margaret Oliphant (1876, UK)
• "The Ghost of Charlotte Cray" / Florence Marryat (1883, UK/India)
• "Lady Farquhar's Old Lady, A True Ghost Story" / Mrs. [Mary Louisa] Molesworth (1888, UK)
• "In A Far-Off World" / Olive Schreiner (1891, South Africa)
• "Death and the Woman" / Gertrude Atherton (1892, USA)
• "Man-Size in Marble" / Edith Nesbit (1893, UK)
• "The Banshee's Warning" / Mrs. J. H. [Charlotte Eliza Lawson] Riddell (1894, N. Ireland/UK)
• "Caulfield's Crime" / Alice Perrin (1901, India)
• "The Wind in the Rose-Bush" / Mary E. Wilkins (1902, USA)
• "Sultana's Dream" / Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1905, India (Bangladesh))
• "The Woman with the Hood" / L. T. [Elizabeth Thomasina] Meade (1908, UK)
• "If I Were a Man" / Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1914, USA)
• "Consequences" / Willa Cather (1915, USA)
• "Kerfol" / Edith Wharton (1916, USA)
• "A Suburban Fairy Tale" / Katherine MAnsfield (1917, New Zealand)
• "A Haunted House" / Virginia Woolf (1921, UK)
• "The Nature of the Evidence" / May Sinclair (1923, UK)
• "The Unbolted Door" / Mrs. Belloc Lowndes (1929, UK)
• "The Buick Saloon" / Mary O'Malley (1931, UK/Ireland)
• "Shambleau" / C. L. Moore (1933, USA)
• "The Supper at Elsinore" / "Isek" Dinesen [Karen (Dinesen) Blixen] (1934, Denmark / Kenya)
• "The English Gentleman's Tale -- The Gold Bride" / Christina Stead (1934, Australia)
• "The Mask of Sacrifice" / Margery Lawrence (1936, UK)

• Notes on the Authors
• Acknowledgements