Embracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the work of an elite group of American women writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The earliest stories are Rebecca Harding Davis’ naturalistic “Life in the Iron Mills” (published in 1861 and predating ﾉmile Zola’s Germinal by almost 25 years) and Louisa May Alcott’s semiautobiographical tale “Transcendental Wild Oats” (1873). The most recent ones are Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat,” an ironic tale of a failed marriage, published in 1926, and “Sanctuary” (1930), Nella Larsen’s gripping and controversial tale of contested loyalty.
In between is a grand cavalcade of superbly crafted fiction by Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Djuna Barnes, Susan Glaspell and Edith Wharton. Brief biographies of each of the writers are included.
Author: Candace Ward
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 02/05/1996
Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.18w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9780486287768
Language: English
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