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Isobel Violet Hunt (1862-1942) was a British author of short stories, novels, memoir and biography. She is most famous for her supernatural fiction. The Operation is a short novella which tells a very odd story. The second wife of the famous dwarf comedy actor, Joseph Mardell, learns that her cook has seen a funeral procession leaving a neighbouring house on Christmas day.

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....

A collection of short stories written by prominent supporters of the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom....

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. A decade of monumental change and slaughter. Many of society’s telling questions are cast aside in times of that speak of greater needs, greater priorities. For these talented authors their ideas and words keep these magnificent stories at the forefront of our literary lives.

En este volumen se recopilan relatos donde lo sobrenatural se erige en protagonista y en los que Violet Hunt da prioridad a personajes femeninos asociados a la Nueva Mujer, ideal feminista de finales del siglo XIX. En «El telegrama» vemos como un amante aguarda ser correspondido por su amada y cuando todo apunta a que así será, se encuentra muy enfermo. En «La boina azul» somos testigos de la historia de Christina Daunet, última descendiente de ilustre abolengo, que ve cómo su casa se va desmoronando.

A rich anthology of classic tales of ghosts and the supernatural written by women. 'The Operation' by Violet Hunt; 'On the Northern Ice' by Elia W. Peattie; 'Afterward' by Edith Wharton; T'he Missing Model' by Lettice Galbraith; 'The Cold Embrace' by Mary E. Braddon; 'Room Number Ten' by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor; 'Pomegranate Seed' by Edith Wharton; 'Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork' by Eleanor Smith; 'The Mystery of the Semi-Detached' by Edith Nesbit.

Twenty classic tales featuring doctors, patients, feverish imaginations, sick minds and unwell bodies, including 'Under the Knife' by H. G. Wells, 'Room Number Ten' by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor, 'Story of the Vanishing Patient' by Elia J. Peattie, 'The District Doctor' by Ivan Turgenev, 'Dead of Night' by W. F. Harvey, 'Cool Air' by H. P. Lovecraft, 'The Operation' by Violet Hunt, 'The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number' by Gertrude Atherton and more.

Step into a world of dark intrigue with Tales of the Uneasy, a captivating collection of nine twisty tales that explore tragic human drama against the backdrop of Victorian parlors, deathbeds, and desolate country roads. Crafted from the writings of Violet Hunt, these stories are rich in the elements of compelling short fiction flirtatious beauties, mismatched love, ominous lung symptoms, and the cruel hand of fate. While some horrors might have a ghostly origin, many are deeply rooted in the complexities of our human nature. - Lisa Reichert