Published in 2002
446 pages
Harriet Devine Jump is Senior Lecturer in English at Edge Hill University College. Her recent publications include Mary Wollstonecraft: Writer (1994), Women’s Writing of the Romantic Period, 1789-1836 (1997), and Women’s Writing of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901 (1998).
What is this book about?
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, and 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.
