also included Rudyard Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King." More recently, the story appeared in the 2004 Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories. "The Revenge of Her Race" is set in colonial New Zealand and tells the tale of a beautiful Maori woman named Maritana who marries an Englishman. The story depicts Maritana as a tragic character who is caught between two cultures and dies young. Although the narrator shows Maritana in a sympathetic light, the story and its critical reception demonstrate the influence of scientific racism in the 1890s. One of Beamont's English characters states that Maritana's inability to become completely Anglicized is due to "something" in her "very blood." In response, the New York Times commented, "There is an exceeding truthfulness in 'The Revenge of Race.' We have all heard of the Zulu lad taken from savagery . . . who, on his return to Africa . . . resumed the ways of his wild kindred. It is a case of atavism." Joan Seaton (1896) Like the title story in A Ringby Lass, Joan Seaton is set in Yorkshire, specifically in a fictional village called Percival-Dion (or Parsifal-Dion). It follows the interactions of several local families who have known each other for multiple generations. According to Beaumont's friend Robert Horton, the village of Parsifal-Dion is based on the real village of Thornton Rust in Wensleydale. Contemporary reviewers praised the book for its depiction of character and the romantic Yorkshire setting. Her recurring use of the Yorkshire setting for her fiction led to the perception that Beaumont's work participated in the larger movement of British regional literature. One reviewer wrote that "In Joan Seaton and in some of her shorter tales she succeeds in doing for parts of Yorkshire what Mr. J.M. Barrie and Ian Maclaren have done for Scotland." In 1912, Joan Seaton was issued as part of the Everyman's Library series. Two New Women and Other Stories (1899) This collection contains ten stories: "Two New Women," "The Avenger," "An Askedale Woman," "Alison," "The Heart of Dandy Fane," "Ould Weather-Glass," "The Lovers of Avino," "His Wife's Hand," "An Old Score," and "His Enemy." Reviewers praised Beaumont's emphasis on compassion and morality. The title story, "Two New Women," is by far the longest. The title alludes to Victorian debates over women's emancipation and the concept of the New Woman. The story is set in Italy, where an English