The Victorian Women Writers Collection

Written by Edith Nesbit, Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton

Narrated by Cathy Dobson

A fascinating collection of short stories by some of the greatest Victorian female writers. This anthology covers every theme from spirits and the occult to love and sexuality to sentimentality and romance to social observation and critique.

'The Operation' by Violet Hunt
'Satan's Circus' by Eleanor Smith
'A Dream of Wild Bees' by Olive Schreiner
'A Dill Pickle' by Katherine Mansfield
'Squirrel in a Cage' by E. M. Delafield
'Afterward' by Edith Wharton
'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin
'The Artist's Secret' by Olive Schreiner
'The Marquise' by George Sand
'Mansize in Marble' by Edith Nesbit
'In a Far off World' by Olive Schreiner
'The Lifted Veil' by George Eliot
'The Mortal Immortal' by Mary Shelley
'Mrs Raeburn's Waxwork' by Eleanor Smith
'The Dolls' House' by Katherine Mansfield
'The Violet Car' by Edith Nesbit
'The Apple Tree' by Katherine Mansfield
'The Eyes' by Edith Wharton
'The King Is Dead, Long Live the King' by Mary Coleridge
'An Idyll of London' by Beatrice Harraden
'The Singing Lesson' by Katherine Mansfield
'The Storm' by Kate Chopin
'The Sailor Uncle' by Mary Lamb
'The Hired Baby' by Marie Corelli

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Door Consulting
• Release date: Oct 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781509495597

Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English writer of children’s literature. Born in Kennington, Nesbit was raised by her mother following the death of her father—a prominent chemist—when she was only four years old. Due to her sister Mary’s struggle with tuberculosis, the family travelled throughout England, France, Spain, and Germany for years. After Mary passed, Edith and her mother returned to England for good, eventually settling in London where, at eighteen, Edith met her future husband, a bank clerk named Hubert Bland. The two—who became prominent socialists and were founding members of the Fabian Society—had a famously difficult marriage, and both had numerous affairs. Nesbit began her career as a poet, eventually turning to children’s literature and publishing around forty novels, story collections, and picture books. A contemporary of such figures of Lewis Carroll and Kenneth Grahame, Nesbit was notable as a writer who pioneered the children’s adventure story in fiction. Among her most popular works are The Railway Children (1906) and The Story of the Amulet (1906), the former of which was adapted into a 1970 film, and the latter of which served as a profound influence on C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series. A friend and mentor to George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells, Nesbit’s work has inspired and entertained generations of children and adults, including such authors as J.K. Rowling, Noël Coward, and P.L. Travers.