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Mary Shelley's Gothic Tales in the Keepsake

Mary Shelley's Gothic Tales in the Keepsake

A Digital Scholarly Edition created by Caroline Winter

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Tale or Short Story

A piece of short prose fiction

limo: ShortStory

The Coward, a Tale

Date of Publication: 

1830
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Twice Lost, But Saved

Date of Publication: 

1830
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Chesterfield and Fanny

Date of Publication: 

1830
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The Evil Eye

Date of Publication: 

1829

Motifs: 

  • vampire
  • orientalism
  • Evil Eye
  • revenants
  • debt of honour
  • parentage
  • war
  • inheritance
  • abduction
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The Dream

Date of Publication: 

1831

Motifs: 

  • orphan
  • Saint Denis
  • Catholicism
  • superstition
  • dreams
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The Invisible Girl

Date of Publication: 

1832

Motifs: 

  • tale telling
  • more dead than alive
  • Cinderella
  • tyranny
  • melancholy
  • legal imprisonment
  • portrait in unlikely place
  • mysterious light
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The Mortal Immortal

Date of Publication: 

1833

Motifs: 

  • potion
  • alchemy
  • orphan
  • Wandering Jew
  • immortality
  • tale telling
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Transformation

Date of Publication: 

1830

Motifs: 

  • blood freezing (figurative)
  • sealing a contract with blood
  • tale telling
  • doubles
  • abduction
  • inheritance
  • luxury
  • profligacy
  • shipwreck
  • demon
  • body-snatching
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