Restless spirits : ghost stories by American women, 1872-1926 /

Other Authors: Lundie, Catherine A.,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1996.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Until Death Do Us Part ... and After: Marriage : The lady's maid's bell / Edith Wharton
  • The readjustment / Mary Austin
  • The shell of sense / Olivia Howard Dunbar
  • Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston
  • A legend of Sonora / Hildegarde Hawthorne
  • II. The Tie That Binds: Motherhood : The children / Josephine Daskam Bacon
  • Broken glass / Georgia Wood Pangborn
  • The little gray ghost / Cornelia A.P. Comer
  • Hunger / Katharine Holland Brown
  • The giant wistaria / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • III. The "Other" Woman: Sexuality : At La Glorieuse / M.E.M. Davis
  • The past / Ellen Glasgow
  • Secret chambers / Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
  • Her letters / Kate Chopin
  • IV. Madwomen or Mad Women? The Medicalization of the Female : The second wife / Mary Heaton Vorse
  • Her story / Harriett Prescott Spofford
  • The gospel / Josephine Daskam Bacon
  • Clasy-shuttered doors / Helen R. Hull
  • V. Shades of Discontent: Widows and Spinsters : Lois Benson's love story / Anne Page
  • A dissatisfied soul / Annie Trumbull Slosson
  • Mistress marian's light / Gertrude Morton
  • Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.