Nineteenth-century stories by women
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Nineteenth-century stories by women
(Broadview literary texts)
Broadview Literary Texts, c1993
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Nineteenth-century stories by women : an anthology
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
"The female novelist of the nineteenth century may have frequently encountered opposition and interference from the male literary establishment, but the female short story writer, working in a genre that was seen as less serious and less profitable, found her work to be actively encouraged." from the Introduction.
During the nineteenth century women writers finally began to be as popular and as respected as their male counterparts. We are all familiar with the novels of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and the Broentes. Less familiar is the short fiction of the period; yet a great many nineteenth-century stories by women both famous and obscure retain in full measure their power to fascinate and to entertain. For this anthology Glennis Stephenson brings together stories by both British and North American writers; by such established luminaries as Shelley, Gaskell and Kate Chopin; and by lesser-known writers such as the Anglo-Indian writer Flora Steel, the Afro-American Alice Dunbar Nelson and the Canadian Annie Howells Frechette. The result is an anthology that will be as interesting to the general reader as it will be useful to the student. Stephenson provides background information on all authors, together with a general introduction.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Louisa May Alcott / A Whisper in the Dark
Mary Elizabeth Braddon / Good Lady Ducayne
Kate Chopin / The Storm
Isabella Valancy Crawford / Extradited
Ella D'Arcy / The Pleasure-Pilgrim
Rebecca Harding Davis / Anne
Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Sister Josepha
George Egerton / Gone Under
Annie Howells Frechette / A Widow in the Wilderness
Mary Wilkins Freeman / A New England Nun
Elizabeth Gaskell / Lizzie Leigh
Elizabeth Gaskell / The Old Nurse's Story
Charlotte Perkins Gilman / The Yellow Wallpaper
Sarah Orne Jewett / A White Heron
Vernon Lee / Dionea
L.M. Montgomery / The Red Room
Margaret Oliphant / A Story of a Wedding Tour
Mary Shelley / The Parvenue
Harriet Prescott Spofford / Circumstance
Flora Annie Steel / Mussumat Kirpo's Doll
Constance Fenimore Woolson / Felipa
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