The Top 10 Short Stories – The 1890’s – The Women: The top ten Short Stories of the 1890's written by female authors

Written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Nesbit, Charlotte Mew and 7 more

Narrated by Liza Ross, Laurel Lefkow and Ghizela Rowe

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.

The Century races to a close but the reality of a woman’s place within it is still accepted as downtrodden and disposable. Society is slow to recognise and even slower to act. Our female authors begin to shine a light on where the future lies through these magnificent literary gems.

1 - The Top 10 - Women. The 1890's - An Introduction

2 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3 - From The Dead by Edith Nesbit

4 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin

5 - The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather

6 - Passed by Charlotte Mew

7 - The Hired Baby, A Romance of the London Streets by Mary Mackay writing as Marie Corelli

8 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman

9 - Another Freak by Mary Angela Dickens

10 - The Ghost at the Wrath by Rosa Mulholland

11 - Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Feb 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803541624

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 in Connecticut. Her father left when she was young and Gilman spent the rest of her childhood in poverty. As an adult she took classes at the Rhode Island School of Design and supported herself financially as a tutor, painter and artist. She had a short marriage with an artist and suffered serious postnatal depression after the birth of their daughter. In 1888 Gilman moved to California, where she became involved in feminist organizations. In California, she was inspired to write and she published The Yellow Wallpaper in The New England Magazine in 1892. In later life she was diagnosed with breast cancer and died by suicide in 1935.