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Miss Jemima

Walter de la Mare

First published 1925
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Jemima is an old woman when she recounts the tale of when she was young and had a vision of a beautiful woman, a fairy, who tempts her to run away. -- from <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://tartaruspress.com/d8.htm">A Guide to Supernatural Fiction</a>

First published in Joy Street Number 1, Blackwell, 1923.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1925 Miss Jemima Basil Blackwell Chapbook
1925 Cover Broomsticks and Other Tales Constable & Co. Ltd. Collection |3
1925 Cover Broomsticks and Other Tales Alfred A. Knopf Collection 38
1947 Cover Collected Stories for Children Faber and Faber Collection
1977 Cover Ghostly and Ghastly Beaver Books Anthology 53
1977 Cover Collected Stories for Children Puffin Books in association with Faber and Faber Collection 205
1977 Cover Ghostly and Ghastly Beaver Books Anthology 53
October 1995 Cover Dread and Delight: A Century of Children's Ghost Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 32
February 1996 Cover Dread and Delight: A Century of Children's Ghost Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 32
February 2006 Cover Short Stories for Children Giles de la Mare Publishers Collection |3
June 2007 Cover Strangers and Pilgrims Tartarus Press Collection 118
July 2012 Cover Short Stories for Children Giles de la Mare Publishers Collection
2022 Cover Strangers and Pilgrims Tartarus Press Collection 118