Daughters of Decadence ed. Elaine Showalter (London: Virago Press 1-85381-590-X, Jun ’93, £6.99, xx+326pp, tp)
18 stories by women writers of the fin-de-siècle. None overtly supernatural though a few are surreal.
- vii · Introduction · Elaine Showalter · in
- An Egyptian Cigarette · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue Apr 19 1900
- Emancipation: A Life Fable · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University 1969
- Theodora: A Fragment · Victoria Cross · ss The Yellow Book 1895
- Suggestion · Ada Leverson · ss The Yellow Book Apr 1895
- A Cross Line · George Egerton · ss 1893Keynotes, London: John Lane 1893
- She-Notes · Borgia Smudgiton · ss Punch Mar 10 1884 (+1)
- By Accident · George Fleming · ss 1898
- The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine Jan 1892
- The Undefinable: A Fantasia · Sarah Grand · ss Emotional Moments, London: Hurst and Blackett 1908
- Lady Tal · Vernon Lee · ss Vanities, London: Heinemann 1896
- A White Night · Charlotte Mew · ss Temple Bar May 1907
- The Buddhist Priest’s Wife · Olive Schreiner · ss Stories, Dreams and Allegories, London: T. Fisher Unwin 1923
- Three Dreams in a Desert · Olive Schreiner · ss Dreams, Donohoe 1890
- Life’s Gift · Olive Schreiner · ss Dreams, Donohoe 1890
- The Valley of Childish Things · Edith Wharton · ss The Century Magazine Jul 1896
- The Muse’s Tragedy · Edith Wharton · ss Greater Inclination, Scribner 1899
- Miss Grief · Constance Fenimore Woolson · ss Lippincott’s Magazine May 1880
- The Fifth Edition · Mabel E. Wotton · ss Day-Books, London: John Lane 1896
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