The Top 10 Short Stories - British Women: The top ten short stories of all time written by British female authors.

Written by Aphra Behn, Mary Cholmondeley, Charlotte Mew and 7 more

Narrated by Eve Karpf, Ghizela Rowe and Amanda Weston

The top 10 short stories of all time written by British female authors.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?

The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.

Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.

Here, in this volume, precious gems of work shine, unequalled in their brilliance. Their own literary lives may have been, in most cases, uphill and hard fought for in a society that found it hard to value their worth. Their talents ensured the permanence of their work.

1 - The Top 10 - The British Women - An Introduction

2 - The Unfortunate Bride by Aphra Behn

3 - Her Murderer by Mary Cholmondeley

4 - Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy

5 - Sophie Mason Comes Back by E M Delafield

6 - Rhapsody by Dorothy Edwards

7 - The Lifted Veil by George Eliot

8 - Sextons Hero by Elizabeth Gaskell

9 - Passed by Charlotte Mew

10 - The Mourner by Mary Shelley

11 - Solid Objects by Virginia Woolf

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Apr 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781839678509

Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the first Englishwomen to earn a living from writing. She was a playwright, poet, translator, and fiction writer during the Restoration era. Behn’s plays and writing were well-received by the public, but she often found herself in legal trouble or being judged harshly because critics did not like that she was a successful woman. Behn remained a strong advocate for herself, and argued that women should have the same education opportunities as men, paving the way for more women to become writers.