The Mystery of a Turkish Bath | Rita, pseudonym of Eliza Margaret Jane Gollan (1850-1938)
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Author: Rita, pseudonym of Eliza Margaret Jane Gollan (1850-1938)
Added by: NicholasHodson
Added Date: 2008-05-29
Publication Date: 1888
Language: English
Subjects: Athelstane; Gollan; Rita; Turkish; Bath; PDF; HTML; ZIP; TXT
Publishers: Athelstane e-Books, London, England, United Kingdom
Collections: folkscanomy fiction, folkscanomy, additional collections
Pages Count: 120
PPI Count: 72
PDF Count: 2
Total Size: 46.43 MB
PDF Size: 30.66 MB
Extensions: djvu, gif, htm, pdf, zip, gz, torrent
Rights: We used a Plustek OpticBook 3600 scanner to scan the pages. We then made a pdf which we used to assist with checking and editing the OCRed text. To make a text version we used ABBYY Finereader 8 to produce a first draft of the text, and Athelstane software to find misreads and improve the text. We proof-read the chapters, and then made a CD with the book read aloud by either Fonix ISpeak or TextAloud MP3. The last step enables us to hear and correct most of the errors that may have been missed by the other steps, as well as entertaining us during the work of transcription. The resulting text can be read either here at the Internet Archive or at www.athelstane.co.uk. This process represents a large investment of time and skill. You may freely download a copy for your own use. We do not in the least mind if anybody wishes to offer any of our work on another website, but would point out that they should state that the copyright is Athelstane's, rather than claiming it as their own. They should also state that, as we are constantly working to improve our texts, their readers should refer back to our version if they need to verify a text. Commercial use strictly forbidden.
Year: 1888
Contributor: Nick Hodson
License: Unknown License
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Description
Under the pseudonym "Rita" E M Gollan wrote some seventy novels of which this is one. It is a rather penetrating book about the supernatural. It starts off with a somewhat unusual situation, at least in literature, with a group of ladies in the turkish bath of a large and luxurious hotel by the sea, in England, the sort of hotel to which people go to be cured of illnesses, on the recommendation of their doctors. It is some time in the late nineteenth century.
An extraordinarily beautiful woman appears one day in the turkish bath, and the women already in there are quite fascinated by her. But there is another guest in the hotel, a Colonel Estcourt, who, it turns out had known this woman since childhood. Indeed it had been expected that they would one day wed, but instead she had gone off and married an elderly, but fabulously wealthy, Russian prince.
Various demonstrations of her occult powers make the guests, both men and women, realise that the beautiful Princess is someone with very special gifts, which one or two of them would like to learn more about. But in the very process of the ensuing teach-in, more things happen than had been bargained for, and both the Colonel and the Princess end up lifeless. The Mystery deepens.
If you like this sort of thing it is a very good novel, but if you are not happy to read about the occult, you should leave it severely alone.
Eliza Margaret Jane Gollan, a British author, wrote some 78 books under the pseudonym RITA, in capitals. She lived from 1850 to 1938 (January 1st), so she comes out of European Union copyright at the beginning of 2009. She married twice (Humphreys and von Booth). For a short time she also used the pseudonym "E Jayne Gilbert".
