... Amelia B. Edwards , ' Was it an Illusion ? ' , in All Saints ' Eve : The Murder Mysteries of Amelia B. Edwards , selected and introduced by Richard Dalby ( Ware , Hertfordshire : Wordsworth , 2008 ) , pp . 147–64 . 89 Rudyard Kipling ...
... Amelia Edwards's “Was it an Illusion” (1881).5 Seen from the expanding city, the countryside began to seem increasingly alien, a suitable site for the otherworldly. The Celtic fringe provided for metropolitan readers an even more alien ...
Amelia B. Edwards " Was it an Illusion ? A Parson's Story " ( 1881 ) [ Amelia B ( landford ) Edwards ( 1831-92 ) was born in London and even- tually supported her parents by writing short stories for Household Words , All the Year Round ...
... Amelia B. Edwards ' " Was It an Illusion ? " ( 1881 ) gesture towards the persistence of these tensions between vision and knowledge , illusion and reality . Other tales destabilize the primacy of visual epistemology by drawing a marked ...
... Amelia B. Edwards's ' Was It an Illusion ?: A Parson's Story ' ( 1881 ) , maintain a careful balance between credulity and scepticism , capturing this interrogative approach to the supernatural in Victorian culture . Literary ghost ...
... Amelia Edwards ' " Was It an Illusion ? " ( 1881 ) bear witness to the centrality of hesitation to the structure of the genre . This was reinforced by the influence of spiritualism with its paradoxical mandate to see the invisible and ...
... Amelia Edwards's " Was It an Illusion ? " for example , ends with the titular question repeated , unanswered . It is up to the reader to try on various beliefs and form an opinion . As Hadley has argued in an analy- sis of Anthony ...
... Amelia B. Edwards' “Was it an Illusion?” Rhoda Broughton's “Poor Pretty Bobby,” M. R. James' “The Residence at Witminster,” E. F. Benson's “In the Tube,” and “The Confessions of Charles Linkworth,” E. Nesbit's “John Chatterton's Wedding ...
... Amelia Edwards ' ' Was it an Illusion ? A Parson's story ' ( 1881 ) , Margaret Oliphant's ' The Open Door ' ( 1882 ) , and M.R. James''Lost Hearts ' ( 1895 ) , and H.D. Everett's ' Anne's Little Ghost ' ( 1920 ) all use professional or ...
Die Erzählung "Das Haus des schwarzen Magiers" (Originaltitel: The Haunted and the Haunters) aus dem Jahr 1859 gehört neben den Romanen "Zanoni", "Eine seltsame Geschichte" und "Das Geschlecht der Zukunft" zum fantastischen Ouevre des ...