TY - BOOK AU - Jump, Harriet Device, ed. TI - Nineteenth-century short stories by women: a Routledge anthology SN - 0415167817 U1 - 823.0108928709034 PY - 1998/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - English Literature-Short stories KW - Manners and customs KW - Great Britain KW - English fiction--Women authors KW - Short stories, English KW - English fiction KW - Women N2 - This anthology brings together twenty-eight lively and readable short stories by nineteenth-century women writers, including gothic tales to romances, detective fiction and ghost stories. Containing short fiction by well-known authors such as: * Maria Edgeworth * Mary Shelley * Elizabeth Gaskell * Margaret Oliphant Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women also includes: * a scholarly introduction * biographies for each of the authors * full explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading * a critical commentary, publication details and historical context * a full and wide-ranging bibliography The bibliography of resources and further reading will enable those interested in pursuing research on any author or topic to do so with ease, and a thematic index will enable teachers to select material best suited to their courses ER -