The Sorceress of the Strand and Other Stories

ISBN-13: 9781554811489 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 312 str.

L. T. Meade; Janis Dawson

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Previously out of print, these sensational late-Victorian stories feature powerful criminal women.

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
L.T. Meade: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Stories from the Diary of a Doctor (second series)

2. “The Seventh Step”

The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings

1. “At the Edge of the Crater”

The Heart of a Mystery

2. “A Little Smoke”

The Sorceress of the Strand

1. “Madame Sara”
2. “The Blood-Red Cross”
3. “The Face of the Abbot”
4. “The Talk of the Town”
5. “The Bloodstone”
6. “The Teeth of the Wolf”

Appendix A: Contemporary Interviews and Reviews

1. From “Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives,” Strand Magazine (December 1898)
2. From L.T. Meade, “How I Began,” Girl’s Realm (November 1900)
3. From Sarah A. Tooley, “Some Women Novelists,” Woman at Home (1897)
4. From E.A. Bennett, “The Fiction of Popular Magazines,” Fame and Fiction (1901)

Appendix B: Degeneration and Crime

1. From Gina Lombroso Ferrero, Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso (1911)
2. From Cesare Lombroso, “Atavism and Evolution,” Contemporary Review (July 1895)
3. From J. Holt Schooling, “Nature’s Danger-Signals. A Study of the Faces of Murderers,” Harmsworth Magazine (1898-99)
4. From H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
5. From Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)
6. From Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent (1907)

Appendix C: Female Offenders

1. From “The Probable Retrogression of Women,” Saturday Review (July 1871)
2. From Eliza Lynn Linton, “The Wild Women as Social Insurgents,” Nineteenth Century (October 1891)
3. From Cesare Lombroso and William Ferrero, The Female Offender (1895)
4. “We Want the Vote” (1909)
5. From Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm (1911)

Appendix D: Anarchism and Terrorism

1. From “Dynamite Outrages,” Times (26 January 1885)
2. From “Explosion in Greenwich Park,” Times (16 February 1894)
3. From “The Were-Wolf of Anarchy,” Punch (23 December 1893)

Appendix E: Crime Fiction

1. From “Crime in Fiction,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (August 1890)
2. From Arnold Smith, “The Ethics of Sensational Fiction,” Westminster Review (August 1904)

Works Cited and Recommended Reading