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Title: Saved by the Belle Title Record # 1663222
Editors: T. M. Gray and Charles G. Waugh
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Language: English
Note:
    Several of these stories are likely non-genre.
  • Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. "The Married Man" Munsey's Magazine (December 1921). This is a comedy of a brilliant, but naïve doctor, disillusioned with marriage, and the wife who comes to his rescue.
  • Frederick Trevor Hill. "The Woman in the Case" The Century Magazine (January 1907). When her accountant husband is arrested for 'cooking the books,' a shrewd woman pleads with his prosecutor for help.
  • Mrs. Chetwood Smith. "Scallop Island" Cranberry Cove Stories Boston: Richard G. Badger (1915). The climax of this tale of blossoming love between a visiting artist and a fisherman's daughter involves a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Maine.
  • Phyllis Bottome. "The Liqueur Glass" The Smart Set (March 1915). This story is about a woman's courage to save her children from a bully of a husband, in a time when victims of domestic violence had few rights and scarce resources.
  • Kathleen Norris "Miss Mix, Kidnapper" Munsey's Magazine (May 1911). The middle-aged widower from New York is shocked to discover his twenty year old son engaged to a thirty-two year old landlady, but, after meeting her in California, he is even more shocked to discover what caused this.
  • Anna Katherine Green. "The Second Bullet" The Golden Slipper, And Other Problems for Violet Strange New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons (1915). Here, Violet Strange, amateur detective, must determine the nature of a crime that killed a man and his infant son.
  • Helen Hunt Jackson. "How One Woman Kept Her Husband" Scribner's Monthly (February 1872). When her husband become infatuated with another, a loving wife makes a dramatic and unconventional move in an attempt to save her marriage.
  • Jack London. "The House of Mapuhi" McClure's (January 1909). A rugged South Seas tale, in which a grandmother, swept out to sea in a terrible hurricane, struggles to transport a great treasure back to her family on their island home.
  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. "The Chief Operator" Harper's Magazine (July 1909). In this story, the chief operator of the telephone system takes on the responsibility of warning her customers of danger when the local dam breaks, but at what cost?
  • Frank R. Adams. "There are No Crooks - A Strange Story of the Underworld of San Francisco" Munsey's Magazine (November 1921). This is a fast-moving story of an opium smuggler, a lawman who pursues him, and the "mute" girl who saves their lives.
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery "The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's" Everybody's Magazine (April 1907). When a feisty cat and a man-hating woman named "Peter" are quarantined in a house with an angry dog and a woman-hating man, you can bet that sparks will fly when cat and woman decide to change dog and man.
  • Beatrice Grimshaw. "The Passenger Whom No One Saw" Everybody's Magazine (October 1914). With the outbreak of deadly plague on an ocean liner, a brave stewardess decides upon drastic action to save the lives of the remaining crew and passengers.
  • Mary Roberts Rinehart. "The Prize Pumpkin Pie" Munsey's Magazine (February 1905). This touching story of a destitute foster mother's sacrifice for her wards ends with an absolutely unforgettable punchline.
  • Eliza Allen. Female Volunteer (or, The Life, and Wonderful Adventures of Miss Eliza Allen, a Young Lady of Eastport, Maine) Cincinnati, Ohio: H.M. Rulison, Queen City Publishing House (1851). (NONFICTION) After her parents threatened her with disinheritance young Eliza set off to find the boy she loved, and this search led to her impersonating a male and enlisting in the army to reunite with her unwitting lover. He fought in the Mexican-American War and participated in the California Gold Rush with her, only to discover her identity later on when she once again saved him from himself.
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman. "Turned" Forerunner (September 1911). When a wife discovers her husband's indiscretions with their young maid have resulted in pregnancy, she invents an ingenious and wholly justified punishment to insure their independence, and drive home a lesson.
  • Jack Bechdolt. "The Snowden Feet" Munsey's Magazine (September 1921). A boy with wanderlust longs for adventure, but discovers it is not quite what he was expecting — but, then again, neither did he expect to find a brave lass who'd help him thwart a crime.
  • Sarah Orne Jewett. "Farmer Finch" Harper's Magazine (January 1885). When young Polly must shoulder the burden of farm work to sustain her family, she learns many lessons about courage and strength.
  • William Dudley Pelley. "The Face in the Window" The Redbook (May 1920). In the Vermont Mountains, in the dead of winter, a desperate woman, in need of the reward money, hunts a homicidal fugitive.
  • Bernard Edward J. Capes. "A Lazy Romance" At a Winter's Fire London: Methuen & Company (1906). When her boyfriend is trapped high on the wall of a collapsing building, a young woman comes up with the only possible means of rescue.
  • Bram Stoker. "Buried Treasures" The Shamrock (March 1875). This is the story of a man who risks life and limb to win the heart of the woman he loves (and vice versa).
  • Olivia Howard Dunbar, "The Shell of Sense" Harper's Monthly (December 1908). Can a ghost overcome her jealousy when she returns home to find her widowed husband in love with her sister?
  • Bret Harte. "High-Water Mark" The Select Works of Bret Harte in Prose and Poetry London: Chatto and Windus (1872). When their marsh home floods, a woman struggles to save herself and her baby.
  • Elmore Elliott Peake. "The Night Run of the 'Overland'" McClure's Magazine (June 1900). In this story, a train desperately needs an engineer and the spare is sick, so his wife takes the job, as she has experience much more extensive than first realized.
  • Selma Lagerlöf "The Girl from the Marsh Croft" In (AC) En saga om en saga och andra sagor (1908). Here, a Nobel Prize winning author delivers a moving account of how a simple Swedish girl, profoundly changes the lives of those around her.
Synopsis: From the Introduction: The 24 stories included in this collection were selected as being some of the finest stories portraying women as the star of the show, having been written from 1851 through 1921, and include one story that is not fiction, but a story of romance, intrigue and adventure all the same. "While the heroines in this anthology are fictional, they are not superhuman. You'll find no goddesses that can bring change with the snap of their fingers. These are regular people who could be anyone—a mother, sister, daughter, aunt, grandmother, a friend, a neighbor. You may recognize their personalities in someone you know, and in yourself, and I have little doubt you will find yourself bonding with more than a few of them. The characters in these stories may have you on the edge of your seat anticipating their challenges and predicaments and you may weep in sympathy, nodding in agreement with their actions."
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Saved by the Belle 2013-00-00 ed. T. M. Gray, Charles G. Waugh Sam Teddy Publishing 978-1-935573-77-7
$20.95?$: US dollar
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tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
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