Frances Osgood
Complete Short Stories

Frances Sargent Osgood (1811-1850) was a leading feminist author of the American Romantic Age. She married portrait painter, Samuel Osgood (1808-1885), in 1835. The artistic couple had three daughters, all of which died at a young age. Frances Osgood authored numerous poems and short stories in the loftiest literary magazines. She entered into a scandal-causing relationship with Edgar Allan Poe, who lauded her works. The book includes an introduction by Andrew's daughter, Maeve Barger, who edited the collection. She includes a short biography on the life of Frances Osgood at the beginning of the book. This is the first collection of Frances Osgood's complete short stories. 

 

• Frances Osgood: Poetry in Prose (Jul. 2019);

• Romance of Real Life in New England (May 1836);

• The Crumpled Rose Leaf (Sep. 1836);

• A Day in New England (Nov. 1836);

• Florence Howard (Apr. 1839);

• The Doom (Aug. 1840);

• Pictures from a Painter's Life (Jan. 1841);

• The Waltz and the Wager (Apr. 1841);

• May Evelyn (Mar. 1842);

• Waste Paper; or "Trifles Light as Air" (Sep. 1842);

• Truth (Dec. 1842);

• The Coquette; or the Game of Life (Jan. 1843);

• Dora's Reward; or the "Ruse de Guerre" (Jun. 1843);

• Pride and Penitence (Sep. 1843);

• Grace Melvyn: or Which is the Bluestocking? (Aug. 1843);

• Lizzie Lincoln (Oct. 1843);

• Daguerreotype Pictures Taken on New Year's Day (Nov. 1843);

• The Wife (Dec. 1843);

• The Lady's Shadow (Jan. 1844);

• Kate Melburne (Jan. 1844);

• Newport Tableaux (Jan. 1844);

• A Match for the Matchmaker (Feb. 1844);

• The Poet's Metamorphosis (Mar. 1844);

• Virginia, the Little Match-Girl of Kentucky (Mar. 1844);

• Feeling Versus Beauty (Jun. 1844);

• Valentine's Day; or a Lover's Reminiscences (Jul. 1844);

• The Flower and Gem; or, the Choice of Grace Gordon (Aug. 1844);

• The Soul Awakened; or Which Shall Win Him (Oct. 1844);

• The Magic Lute (Nov. 1844);

• The Little Lost Shoe; or Fielding in Search of a Foot (Dec. 1844);

• The Soul Mirror (Jan. 1845);

• Florence Errington (Feb. 1845);

• Mabel (Feb. 1845);

• Carry Carlisle (Mar. 1845);

• Once More (Jul. 1845);

• Ida Grey (Aug. 1845);

• Leonora L'Estrange (Oct. 1845);

• Kate Carol; or Glimpses of a Soul (Mar. 1846);

• Glimpses of a Soul.-----No. II. (Jun. 1846);

• Glimpses of a Soul.-----No. III. (Sep. 1846);

• Athenais (Sep. 1846);

• Le Porte-Bouquet, or Genius and Ingenuity (Dec. 1846);

• Glimpses of a Soul (Feb. 1847);

• Life in New York. A Sketch of a Literary Soiree (Mar. 1847);

• Kate Carol to Mary S. (May 1847);

• Kate Carol to Her * (Aug. 1847); and

• Violet Vere's Vacation (May 1848).