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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Emma Frances Dawson: The Itinerant House & Other Stories

Emma Frances Dawson

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Description:A highly regarded collection of ghostly fictionThe author of this collection of the eerie and bizarre was an American poet, author, translator and musician of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite her many talents she attempted just one foray into the other world of supernatural fiction and the result was this book, The Itinerant House and Other Stories. Whilst its quality is undisputed, in its original edition it has become something of a rarity and is highly sought after by aficionados of the genre. So it is particularly gratifying that Leonaur is able to offer this new edition for modern readers. Within the ten tales inside its covers readers you will discover well crafted accounts of the strange and unearthly including, 'Are the Dead Dead?, ' 'A Gracious Visitation', 'Singed Moths' and other gripping yarns to be read beside a warm fire on a cold, dark night. The editors argue that Dawson was "the author of the most distinctive ghost stories written by an American woman in the late nineteenth century." Her dedication to this form, writing as she was mainly in the 1870s and 1880s, sets her apart from most other contemporary practitioners of the genre, who diversified their efforts, as does her sophisticated technique, which carefully spreads a fog of mystery throughout her stories. Dawson was a musician and music teacher, and very well acquainted with works for the stage (as her highly cultured allusions demonstrate), and her technique is essentially theatrical, setting forth vivid and detailed set descriptions, richly ornamented dialogue, and concise "stage directions" -- or actions. She very seldom intrudes into the thoughts and feelings of her characters. Irony pervades their world. Her stories, all of them tragic, all of them supernatural, almost all of them about doomed romance, and all of them set in the doomed San Francisco that was burned to the ground in 1906, have "an elusive something defying analysis, even description," as Ambrose Bierce put it, who called her 1897 collection "a work of supreme genius." It is a quality both elusive and pungent, like the whiff of a half-remembered perfume before the wind whisks it away. An only child whose father was a railroad builder and mother a distant cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emma was born in Bangor, Maine in 1839 and christened Frances E. Dawson. She later treated her birth date as well as her name with poetic license. She grew up in Massachusetts, then moved to California with her ailing mother (who was by then divorced) in the early 1870s. She settled on Russian Hill in San Francisco and stayed there in one cheap apartment or another, caring for her mother, scraping a living together from her teaching and writing, until the great earthquake and fire of 1906 drove her out of the city. Friends built a bungalow for her in Palo Alto and she spent the next twenty years there quietly with her two parrots and her books, secluded from most of those who knew her but friendly on those rare occasions when she ventured forth to visit with people. The editors draw an interesting comparison of her to Emily Dickinson. Reclusive, independent, fiercely intelligent and cultured, Emma was modest about her stories, nearly dismissive of them. One of the enigmas about this woman is that despite her evident dedication to the genre, she almost never wrote fiction unless an editor commissioned it. Another is that her true love, the poems she wrote -- and inserted into her stories -- come across today as conventional and vapid compared to the stories. As the introduction states, "Dawson's ghosts, in more than one story, have foreknowledge of the future -- an important break from their Gothic ancestors, who were typically chained to the past … again and again in these stories we discover that the will of the dead is stronger than the will of the living."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Emma Frances Dawson: The Itinerant House & Other Stories. To get started finding The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Emma Frances Dawson: The Itinerant House & Other Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A highly regarded collection of ghostly fictionThe author of this collection of the eerie and bizarre was an American poet, author, translator and musician of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite her many talents she attempted just one foray into the other world of supernatural fiction and the result was this book, The Itinerant House and Other Stories. Whilst its quality is undisputed, in its original edition it has become something of a rarity and is highly sought after by aficionados of the genre. So it is particularly gratifying that Leonaur is able to offer this new edition for modern readers. Within the ten tales inside its covers readers you will discover well crafted accounts of the strange and unearthly including, 'Are the Dead Dead?, ' 'A Gracious Visitation', 'Singed Moths' and other gripping yarns to be read beside a warm fire on a cold, dark night. The editors argue that Dawson was "the author of the most distinctive ghost stories written by an American woman in the late nineteenth century." Her dedication to this form, writing as she was mainly in the 1870s and 1880s, sets her apart from most other contemporary practitioners of the genre, who diversified their efforts, as does her sophisticated technique, which carefully spreads a fog of mystery throughout her stories. Dawson was a musician and music teacher, and very well acquainted with works for the stage (as her highly cultured allusions demonstrate), and her technique is essentially theatrical, setting forth vivid and detailed set descriptions, richly ornamented dialogue, and concise "stage directions" -- or actions. She very seldom intrudes into the thoughts and feelings of her characters. Irony pervades their world. Her stories, all of them tragic, all of them supernatural, almost all of them about doomed romance, and all of them set in the doomed San Francisco that was burned to the ground in 1906, have "an elusive something defying analysis, even description," as Ambrose Bierce put it, who called her 1897 collection "a work of supreme genius." It is a quality both elusive and pungent, like the whiff of a half-remembered perfume before the wind whisks it away. An only child whose father was a railroad builder and mother a distant cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emma was born in Bangor, Maine in 1839 and christened Frances E. Dawson. She later treated her birth date as well as her name with poetic license. She grew up in Massachusetts, then moved to California with her ailing mother (who was by then divorced) in the early 1870s. She settled on Russian Hill in San Francisco and stayed there in one cheap apartment or another, caring for her mother, scraping a living together from her teaching and writing, until the great earthquake and fire of 1906 drove her out of the city. Friends built a bungalow for her in Palo Alto and she spent the next twenty years there quietly with her two parrots and her books, secluded from most of those who knew her but friendly on those rare occasions when she ventured forth to visit with people. The editors draw an interesting comparison of her to Emily Dickinson. Reclusive, independent, fiercely intelligent and cultured, Emma was modest about her stories, nearly dismissive of them. One of the enigmas about this woman is that despite her evident dedication to the genre, she almost never wrote fiction unless an editor commissioned it. Another is that her true love, the poems she wrote -- and inserted into her stories -- come across today as conventional and vapid compared to the stories. As the introduction states, "Dawson's ghosts, in more than one story, have foreknowledge of the future -- an important break from their Gothic ancestors, who were typically chained to the past … again and again in these stories we discover that the will of the dead is stronger than the will of the living."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Emma Frances Dawson: The Itinerant House & Other Stories. To get started finding The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Emma Frances Dawson: The Itinerant House & Other Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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