Dreams, Visions and Realities: An anthology of short stories by turn-of-the-century women writersStephanie Forward This anthology introduces stories written by British and American Women from 1877 to 1910. The collection and the detailed, authoritative, introduction and notes, will enable the twenty-first-century reader to explore the themes and techniques these women developed as the Victorian was superseded by a new, Modernist, sensibility. Authors covered include Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Kate Chopin. |
Contents
The Mandrake Venus | 1 |
A White Night | 6 |
The City of Blood | 20 |
A Little African Story | 22 |
An Engagement | 29 |
The Hour of Her Life | 47 |
The Worlds Slow Stain | 54 |
The Quicksand | 62 |
The Yellow Wallpaper | 90 |
The Yellow DrawingRoom | 103 |
The Revolt of Mother | 111 |
The Storm | 124 |
A Christmas Story | 129 |
The Game that wasnt Cricket | 141 |
A Bird on its Journey | 143 |
Biographical Notes | 155 |
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