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The Penguin Book of Classic Fantasy by Women

A. Susan Williams

First published 1995
Publisher Penguin Books
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Evelyn De Morgan
Pages xv+572
Price £8.99
ISBN 0140243186

Replaces "Consequences" by Willa Cather in the The Lifted Veil with "The Foreigner" by Sarah Orne Jewett.

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • "First published by Xanadu Publications Ltd 1992"
  • "Published in [sic] Penguin Books 1995"
  • Month of publication from Locus1
  • First printing per number line
  • Cover artist credit per rear cover
  • Australian price A$16.95
  • Locus1 states "several stories were dropped, one added" from earlier edition, The Lifted Veil. From comparison of the contents, in actuality, only one story ("Consequences" by Willa Cather) was dropped. The one added was "The Foreigner" by Sarah Orne Jewett.

Searching by ISBN: 0140243186

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 The Spectre; or, The Ruins of Belfont Priory Sarah Wilkinson Short Story
20 The Mortal Immortal, A Tale Mary Shelley Short Story
33 Napoleon and the Spectre Charlotte Brontë Short Story
37 The Old Nurse's Story Elizabeth Gaskell Novelette
57 The Lifted Veil George Eliot Novelette
97 Circumstance Harriet Prescott Spofford Short Story
110 The Phantom Coach Amelia B. Edwards Short Story
123 The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation A. M. Barnard Novella
185 Kentucky's Ghost Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Short Story
201 The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House Harriet Beecher Stowe Short Story
211 Behold It Was a Dream Rhoda Broughton Short Story
227 The Secret Chamber Margaret Oliphant Novelette
255 The Ghost of Charlotte Cray Florence Marryat Short Story
272 Lady Farquhar's Old Lady, A True Ghost Story Mrs. Molesworth Short Story
286 In a Far-Off World Olive Schreiner Short Story
288 Death and the Woman Gertrude Atherton Short Story
293 Man-Size in Marble Edith Nesbit Short Story
306 The Banshee's Warning Mrs. J. H. Riddell Novelette
325 The Foreigner Sarah Orne Jewett Novelette
349 Caulfield's Crime Alice Perrin Short Story
357 The Wind in the Rose-Bush Mary E. Wilkins Short Story
374 Sultana's Dream Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Short Story
385 The Woman with the Hood L. T. Meade Short Story
400 If I Were a Man Charlotte Perkins Gilman Short Story
407 Kerfol Edith Wharton Novelette
429 A Suburban Fairy Tale Katherine Mansfield Short Story
433 A Haunted House Virginia Woolf Short Story
435 The Nature of the Evidence May Sinclair Short Story
446 The Unbolted Door Mrs. Belloc Lowndes Short Story
453 The Buick Saloon Mary O'Malley Short Story
469 Shambleau C. L. Moore Novelette
497 The Supper at Elsinore Isak Dinesen Novella
542 The English Gentleman's Tale — The Gold Bride Christina Stead Short Story
550 The Mask of Sacrifice Margery Lawrence Short Story
565 Notes on the Authors (The Lifted Veil) uncredited Essay
vii Introduction (The Lifted Veil) A. Susan Williams Essay