The Top 10 Short Stories - 20th Century Women: The top ten short stories of the 20th Century written by female authors.

Written by Willa Cather, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Alice Dunbar Nelson and 5 more

Narrated by Liza Ross, Eve Karpf and Laurel Lefkow

This century unfolds with a fast-changing world riven by immense wars and glutton hungry Empires. Women strive to win the most basic of rights, the right to vote. Their literary testament is now a vital part of our cultural world. They write on all manner of subjects with truth, with imagination and with undeniable talent. We are all the richer for their words.

1 - The Top Ten - 20th Century Women

2 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather

3 - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf

4 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

5 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Gaspell

6 - Here We Are by Dorothy Parker

7 - The Face in the Glass by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

8 - The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railroad by Baroness Orczy

9 - Rooms by Gertrude Stein

10 - White Bread by Zona Gale

11 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803540955

Willa Cather

Born in 1873, Willa Cather was raised in Virginia and Nebraska. After graduating from the University of Nebraska she established herself as a theatre critic, journalist and teacher in Pittsburgh whilst also writing short stories and poems. She then moved to New York where she took a job as an investigative journalist before becoming a full-time writer. Cather enjoyed great literary success and won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Ours. She’s now best known for her Prairie trilogy: O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia. She travelled extensively and died in New York in 1947.