Dreams, Visions and Realities: An anthology of short stories by turn-of-the-century women writers (Late Victorian and Early Modernist Women Writers)

This series covers texts of women writers whose work is being increasingly discussed in the study of the development of the 20th century and the Modernist movements of the 19th century, placing the works in their context The Mandrake Venus / George Egerton -- A White Night / Charlotte Mew -- The City Of Blood / Anna Kingsford -- Dream Life And Real Life / Olive Schreiner -- An Engagement / Ella D'arcy -- The Hour Of Her Life / Mabel E. Wotton -- The World's Slow Stain / Ella Hepworth Dixon -- The Quicksand / Edith Wharton -- The Man In The Scented Coat / Sarah Grand -- A Cowl In Cracow / Ménie Muriel Dowie -- The Yellow Wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Drawing-room / Mona Caird -- The Revolt Of Mother / Mary E. Wilkins -- The Storm / Kate Chopin -- Bro'r Abr'm Jimson's Wedding / Pauline E. Hopkins -- The Game That Wasn't Cricket / Evelyn Sharp -- A Bird On Its Journey / Beatrice Harraden. Edited By Stephanie Forward. Includes Bibliographical References (p. Xxviii-xxxii). Content: The mandrake Venus / George Egerton -- A white night / Charlotte Mew -- The city of blood / Anna Kingsford -- Dream life and real life / Olive Schreiner -- An engagement / Ella D'Arcy -- The hour of her life / Mabel E. Wotton -- "The world's slow stain" / Ella Hepworth Dixon -- The quicksand / Edith Wharton -- The man in the scented coat / Sarah Grand -- A cowl in Cracow / Ménie Muriel Dowie -- The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The yellow drawing-room / Mona Caird -- The revolt of "Mother" / Mary E. Wilkins -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- Bro'r Abr'm Jimson's wedding / Pauline E. Hopkins -- The game that wasn't cricket / Evelyn Sharp -- A bird on its journey / Beatrice Harraden. This anthology introduces stories written by British and American Women from 1877 to 1910. The collection and the detailed, authoritative, introduction and notes, will enable the twenty-first-century reader to explore the themes and techniques these women developed as the Victorian was superseded by a new, Modernist, sensibility. Authors covered include Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Kate Chopin. This is an anthology of short stories which captures the diverse range of concerns confronting women writers of the turn of the twentieth century An anthology of short stories by turn-of-the-century women writers