Harriet Prescott Spofford – författare

This volume contains a charming guide to happiness by early feminist author Harriet Spofford. Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835 - 1921) was an American writer famous for her novels, poems and detective fiction. Other notable works by this author include: "Azarian: An Episode" (1864), "New England Legends" (1871), and "The Thief in the Night" (1872). Contents include: "The Use of the Present", "On a Texas Prairie", "A Mirage", "The Present Time", "The Uses of This World", "Advancing Years", "Looking Backward", "Disenchantment", "Illusions", "Idle Regrets", "Going Over Dry Shod", "Perpetual Hope", "An Ideal World", "A Child''s Discovery", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Harriet Prescott Spofford was a regular contributor of short stories to the well known journal, The Atlantic Monthly. Spofford was well known and well liked at the end of the 19th century for her vivid gothic and fantastic tales. ''Circumstance'' is the finest example of her work, dealing with themes of reality, religion, sex and fear. This short story was originally published in 1860 and we are here republishing it with a introductory biography of the author.

A classic short story by one of America''s most underrated gothic authors of the 1900s. Harriet Prescott Spofford was a regular contributor of short stories to the journal, The Atlantic Monthly. Spofford was well known and well liked at the end of the 19th century for her vivid gothic and fantastic tales. We are republishing this classic tale with a new introdctory biography of the author.

This is the short story that brought Harriet Prescott Spofford into the spotlight and gave her the success and financial security she deserved. When sent into one of the leading journals of the day, it was held back as the editor doubted a woman could have written such a good story and believed Spofford had merely translated it from French. This tale, originally published in 1859, is here republished together with a new introductory biography of the author.

Harriet Prescott Spofford was famous during her lifetime for her pioneering female characters and intense, fantastical gothic style. This is a collection of her finest short stories including ''In a Cellar'', the story which first brought her fame in America, a story which when handed to the editor of a popular journal was almost turned down as the editor refused to believe Spofford had written it. We are republishing these stories together with a new introductory biography of the author.

A wonderful collection of the short stories by one of America''s most underrated authors, Harriet Prescott Spofford. Including the stories, ''In a Cellar'' and ''Circumstance''. Spofford was a regular contributor of short stories to the journal, The Atlantic Monthly. She was well known and well liked at the end of the 19th century for her vivid gothic and fantastic tales. We are republishing these stories together with a new introductory biography of the author.

Originally published in 1860, the formative Gothic novel ‘Sir Rohan’s Ghost’ by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), one of nineteenth-century America’s most significant woman writers, relates the tale of a tormented British aristocrat who struggles to retain his sanity while suffering horrifying visitations from the spectre of his dead lover amid the agonies of an already fragile mind. Setting her tale in the enigmatic Sir Rohan’s beautiful-yet-decaying estate, Spofford immerses readers in a ghost story that marries lush imagery with an atmosphere of impending, mysterious doom. Upon its initial publication, a reviewer writing for ‘The Baltimore Sun’ deemed ‘Sir Rohan’s Ghost’ as ‘a strange, weird production, fascinating and exciting […] A work of genius and not without moral significance’. Dating from a time when women writers like Spofford were increasingly making their voices heard by reshaping the character of popular American literature, ‘Sir Rohan’s Ghost’ remains to this day an engaging and important work of Gothic fiction.

Three Heroines of New England Romance: Their true Stories herein set forth by Mrs Harriet Spoffard, Miss Louise Imogen Guiney, and Miss Alice Brown:Priscilla by Harriet Prescott Spofford.Agnes Surriage by Alice Brown.Martha Hilton by Louise Imogen Guiney.Notes by Edmund H. Garrett.Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford was an American writer of novels, poems and detective stories. One of the United States''s most widely-published authors,her career spanned more than six decades and included many literary genres, such as short stories, poems, novels, literary criticism, biographies, and memoirs. She also wrote articles on household decorative art and travel as well as children''s literature.Louise Imogen Guiney was an American poet, essayist and editor, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts.Alice Brown was an American novelist, poet and playwright, best known as a writer of local color stories. She also contributed a chapter to the collaborative novel, The Whole Family (1908).