The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories
The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories

Author: Dennis Denisoff

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2004-05-11

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1551113562

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The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories beautifully demonstrates the astonishing variety and ingenuity of Victorian short stories. This collection brings together works focused on a wide range of popular Victorian subjects in many different styles and forms (including comic, gothic, fantasy, adventure, and colonial works; science fiction; children’s tales; New Woman writing; Irish yarns; stories originally published in popular periodicals; and travel stories). Both well-known and lesser-known authors are included, and both men and women are well represented. This anthology includes twenty-six annotated stories, a general introduction that discusses the history of the genre’s development in relation to key socio-political issues of the Victorian era, and suggestions for secondary readings. It also includes an intriguing selection of Victorian writings on the genre by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Frederick Wedmore, and Laura Marholm Hansson.

Victorian Short Stories
Victorian Short Stories

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1776677951

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As the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, attitudes about love, marriage, and gender roles began to undergo a radical shift. The five stories collected in this volume, written by literary luminaries such as Henry James, Walter Besant, and Thomas Hardy, expertly capture this period of transition.

Victorian Macabre: Ghastly Short Stories
Victorian Macabre: Ghastly Short Stories

Author: Eric Millen

Publisher:

Published: 2018-05-12

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9781719092463

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"Victorian Macabre: Ghastly Short Stories" contains 45 short stories of horror (chapter sections: Lost Love, Haunted, Monsters, From The Beyond). Each tale of terror is illustrated with a painting of frightening terror! All set in a time when the supernatural and the unknown ruled the land.

The British Short Story
The British Short Story

Author: Emma Liggins

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0230300804

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The short story remains a crucial - if neglected - part of British literary heritage. This accessible and up-to-date critical overview maps out the main strands and figures that shaped the British short story and novella from the 1850s to the present. It offers new readings of both classic and forgotten texts in a clear, jargon-free way.

Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories
Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories

Author: Rex Collings

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781840220667

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This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands - 'Fisher's Ghost' by John Lang is set in Australia and 'A Ghostly Manifestation' by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta. In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre.

Victorian Love Stories
Victorian Love Stories

Author: Kate Flint

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13:

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Thirty-two stories, mostly dating from the 1880s and later, originally published in magazines.

The Romantic Friendship Reader
The Romantic Friendship Reader

Author: Axel Nissen

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781555535902

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Novel excerpts, stories, and travel writing exemplifying a resistance to the "domestic ideology" of the later 19th century. Cf. Introduction. With critical commentary.

The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories
The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories

Author: Richard Dalby

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 573

ISBN-13: 9780786702794

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Gathers forty of the best English and American ghost stories from the genre's golden age of 1839 to 1910, including works by Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ambrose Bierce. Original.

The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne
The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne

Author: Anthony Trollope

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Published: 2021-09-06

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 8726804026

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This enjoyable short story from Anthony Trollope follows the arrogant Captain John Broughton as he seeks to cement his place as heir to his wealthy aunt Miss Le Smyrger. Set in Devonshire, love and romance are also in the air for Captain Broughton, but will his ego ultimately be his downfall? Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was a Victorian writer and author of 47 novels. He also wrote an autobiography, short stories and plays, travel articles, reviews and lectures. A prolific writer, he made no secret of the fact that money was his motivation for writing – an admission which raised eyebrows among his literary contemporaries at the time. The amount of works Trollope authored are testament to his belief in hard work. His first successful novel was The Warden followed by its sequel, Barchester Towers. The Chronicles of Barsetshire are perhaps his most well-known series of novels, though many of his works have been adapted for TV and radio, starring many familiar faces such as Alan Rickman, David Tennant, Bill Nighy and Tom Hollander. Alongside his literary career, Trollope also worked for some time for the Post Office and is credited with the introduction of the iconic post box to Britain. A memorial to Anthony Trollope was unveiled in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey in 1993.