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Faithful Jenny Dove

Eleanor Farjeon

First published 1973
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Jenny Dove died of a broken heart when her beloved Robert didn't return from the war, and her vow to keep watch at Eleanor's Cross until her faithful lover comes home have kept her bound to this realm. But, as Jenny explains to readers, even as a ghost she finds joy and love in the world around her - including a budding friendship with another ghost who haunts the churchyard where Jenny was buried. When those same vows threaten to disrupt her peaceful existence, clever Jenny must find a way to preserve the perfect afterlife she's built for herself.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1973 Cover Haunting Tales Faber and Faber Anthology
1974 Cover Small Shadows Creep E. P. Dutton Anthology 179
1974 Cover Haunting Tales E. P. Dutton Anthology 174
1976 Cover Small Shadows Creep Chatto & Windus Anthology 179
1977 Cover Ghostly Gentlewomen: Two Centuries of Spectral Stories by the Gentle Sex Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Anthology 49
1977 Ghostly Gentlewomen: Two Centuries of Spectral Stories by the Gentle Sex Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Anthology 49
1979 Cover Small Shadows Creep Puffin Anthology
1986 Cover Haunting Tales Puffin Anthology 138