The Top 10 Short Stories - 19th Century American Women: The top ten short stories of the 19th Century written by American female authors.

Written by Edith Wharton

Narrated by Liza Ross, Laurel Lefkow and Janet Maw

Once again on the American side of the Atlantic talent pours forth from the pens of these literary women. Even to choose a mere ten seems to be a choice too difficult to make. Society may hold women back but these writers are equal to the challenge and overcome its boundaries with superbly written stories that are a beacon for all others who follow.

1 - The Top Ten - 19th Century American women

2 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

3 - The Peterkins Decide to Learn the Languages by Lucretia Peabody Hale

4 - A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett

5 - Souls Belated by Edith Wharton

6 - Carnivorine by Lucy Hamilton Hooper

7 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman

8 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

9 - Désirée's Baby by Kate Chopin

10 - From the Dead by Edith Nesbit

11 - The Shape of Fear by Eliw W Peattie

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803540979

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born in 1862 to a prominent and wealthy New York family. In 1885 she married Boston socialite 'Teddy' Wharton but the marriage was unhappy and they divorced in 1913. The couple travelled frequently to Europe and settled in France, where Wharton stayed until her death in 1937. Her first major novel was The House of Mirth (1905); many short stories, travel books, memoirs and novels followed, including Ethan Frome (1911) and The Reef (1912). She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with The Age of Innocence (1920) and she was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also decorated for her humanitarian work during the First World War.