The Strange Transfiguration of Hannah Stubbs is a late-Victorian fantasy novel by Florence Marryat, published in 1896. Set partly in a Soho lodging-house, it follows a mysterious Italian professor and a woman's strange transformation. It blends domestic realism with the supernatural.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
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Opening of the book
THE STRANGE TRANSFIGURATION OF HANNAH STUBBS BY FLORENCE MARRYAT AUTHOR OF “Love’s Conflict,” “My Own Child,” “My Sister the Actress,” etc., etc., etc. “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”—HĵƽƯŧǵ LONDON HUTCHINSON AND CO. 34, PATERNOSTER ROW MDCCCXCVI.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
THE STRANGE TRANSFIGURATION
OF HANNAH STUBBS
CHAPTER I.
“SƗƄƿLjǡ RƗŕĵǡŠLj, Prof. of the Italian Language!” That was the legend that was engraved on the small brass plate that surmounted