Contents

Introduction by Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger

The Drowned Fisherman (1840) by Mrs. S. C. Hall

The Lifted Veil (1859) by George Eliot

The Ghost in the Mill (1870) by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Man with the Nose (1872) by Rhoda Broughton

Little White Souls (1883) by Florence Marryat

Let Loose (1890) by Mary Cholmondeley

The Fulness of Life (1893) by Edith Wharton

The Library Window (1896) by Mrs. Oliphant

Good Lady Ducayne (1896) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Marsyas in Flanders (1900) by Vernon Lee

The Dead and the Countess (1902) by Gertrude Atherton

The Children (1909) by Josephine Daskam Bacon

The Tryst (1911) by Alice Brown

Broken Glass (1911) by Georgia Wood Pangborn

Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched (1922) by May Sinclair

Spunk (1925) by Zora Neale Hurston

Acknowledgments