A fascinating collection of short stories by some of the greatest Victorian female writers. This anthology covers every theme from spirits and the occult to love and sexuality to sentimentality and romance to social observation and critique.

• 'The Operation' by Violet Hunt
• 'Satan's Circus' by Eleanor Smith
• 'A Dream of Wild Bees' by Olive Schreiner
• 'A Dill Pickle' by Katherine Mansfield
• 'Squirrel in a Cage' by E. M. Delafield
• 'Afterward' by Edith Wharton
• 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin
• 'The Artist's Secret' by Olive Schreiner
• 'The Marquise' by George Sand
• 'Mansize in Marble' by Edith Nesbit
• 'In a Far off World' by Olive Schreiner
• 'The Lifted Veil' by George Eliot
• 'The Mortal Immortal' by Mary Shelley
• 'Mrs Raeburn's Waxwork' by Eleanor Smith
• 'The Dolls' House' by Katherine Mansfield
• 'The Violet Car' by Edith Nesbit
• 'The Apple Tree' by Katherine Mansfield
• 'The Eyes' by Edith Wharton
• 'The King Is Dead, Long Live the King' by Mary Coleridge
• 'An Idyll of London' by Beatrice Harraden
• 'The Singing Lesson' by Katherine Mansfield
• 'The Storm' by Kate Chopin
• 'The Sailor Uncle' by Mary Lamb
• 'The Hired Baby' by Marie Corelli