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Lady Eleanore's Mantle

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published 1842
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Lady Eleanore is an immensely proud woman who wears a magnificent mantle embroidered by a dying woman and believed to have magical properties. After scorning and mistreating a man who loves her, she is struck down as one of the first victims of an epidemic of smallpox which her mantle is rumored to be the source of.

First published in The Democratic Review, December 1838.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1842 Twice-Told Tales James Munroe Collection |22
1897 Cover Twice-Told Tales Maynard, Merrill, & Co. Collection |6
1907 Cover Twice-Told Tales Houghton Mifflin Collection 307
1937 Cover The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne Modern Library Omnibus 971
1950 Selected Tales and Sketches Rinehart Collection |16
1962 Cover Hawthorne's Short Stories Dodd, Mead & Co. Collection |10
1963 Cover The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories Signet / New American Library Collection
1965 Cover Twice-Told Tales Airmont Books Collection 161
1970 Cover Selected Tales and Sketches Holt, Rinehart and Winston Collection 235
1982 Cover Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus 652
October 1989 Cover Twice-Told Tales Reader's Digest Collection 179
January 1995 Cover Angels of Darkness: Tales of Troubled and Troubling Women GuildAmerica Books / SFBC Anthology 163
2001 Cover Twice-Told Tales Modern Library Collection 210
October 2004 Twice-Told Tales Project Gutenberg Collection 263
2007 Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus |652
October 2008 The Snow-Image and Other Stories of the Supernatural Tartarus Press Collection 175
August 2010 Cover Twice-Told Tales Gray Rabbit Publications Collection 173