A FEW YEARS AGO, no matter how many, I, Harcourt Blunt, was travelling with my friend Coventry Turnour, and it was on the steps of our hotel that I received from him the announcement that he was again in love. ‘I tell you, Blunt,’ said my fellow-traveller, ‘she’s the loveliest creature I ever beheld in … Read more
Synopsis: “The Invisible Girl” is a short story by Mary Shelley, published in 1833 in The Keepsake. It recounts the adventure of a traveler who, disoriented during a storm, finds refuge in a tower that appears abandoned and in ruins. Inside, he encounters a surprisingly welcoming atmosphere and an enigmatic portrait of a young woman known as “The Invisible Girl.” Fascinated by the place, the man asks a local woman for more information about it. She reveals to him a tale of love, sorrow, and mystery that links a series of characters and explains the reason for such a peculiar construction. The Invisible Girl is a work in which the author of Frankenstein blends the Gothic with the Romantic to tell a tragic and moving story.
With despair—cold, sharp despair—buried deep in her heart like a wicked knife, Miss Meadows, in cap and gown and carrying a little baton, trod the cold corridors that led to the music hall. Girls of all ages, rosy from the air, and bubbling over with that gleeful excitement that comes from running to school on … Read more