Charlotte Riddell’s Short Story Collections
Compiled by Michael Flowers ©2005-2006
First edition of Handsome Phil & Other Stories
Photo Miles Stribling. (c) 2006
Frank
Sinclair’s Wife & Other Stories, Tinsley Brothers, 1874, 3 vols
i) Frank Sinclair’s Wife
ii) My First Love
iii) My Last Love
iv) Forewarned, Forearmed
v) Hertford O’Donnell’s Warning.
The Prince of Wales’s Garden Party & Other Stories, Chatto & Windus, 1882, 1 vol
i) The Prince of Wales’s Garden Party
ii) Lady Dugdale’s Diamonds
iii) Far Stranger than Fiction
iv) Captain Mat’s Wager
v) Margaret Donnan
vi) Miss Molloy’s Mishap
vii) Mrs. Donald.
Weird Stories, James Hogg, 1882, 1 vol
i) Walnut-Tree House
ii) The Open Door
iii) Nut-Bush Farm
iv) The Old House in Vauxhall Walk
v) Sandy the Tinker
vi) Old Mrs. Jones.
Idle Tales, Ward & Downey, 1888, 1 vol
i) The Run on Connell’s Bank
ii) Only a Lost Letter
iii) He Loved and He Rode Away iv) Pretty Peggy
v) A Slight Misapprehension
vi) The Misses Popkin
vii) The Last of Squire Ennismore
viii) A Storm in a Tea Cup
Princess Sunshine & Other Stories, Ward & Downey, 1889, 2 vols
i) Princess Sunshine
ii) A Terrible Vengeance
iii) Why Dr. Cray Left Southam.
The Banshee’s Warning & Other Tales, Remington, 1894, 1 vol
i) The Banshee’s Warning
ii) Mr. Mabbot’s Fright
iii) A Vagrant Digestion
iv) Bertie Evering’s Experience
v) Little Jane vi) So Near; or the Pity of it.
Handsome Phil & Other Stories, F.V. White, 1899, 1 vol
i) Handsome Phil
ii) Diarmid Chittock’s Story
ii) Out in the Cold
iii) Mr. Polzoy’s Little Katey
iv) In Deadly Peril
v) Conn Kilrea
vi) Dr. Varvill’s Prescription
vii) A Personal Experience.
Sources
S. M. Ellis, Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu & Others ( London: Constable,1934).
Michael Sadleir, XIX Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951).
Robert Lee Wolff, Nineteenth-Century Fiction: A Bibliographical Catalogue,
5 Vols (New York:Garland, 1981-6).