In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did.
But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms. However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender.
Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need. Narratives had new ideas. Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility.
The women included here are talents that dazzle. Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top. Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed.
1 - Women of Wonder - Love - An Introduction
2 - Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield
3 - Uncle Abraham's Romance by Edith Nesbit
4 - Here We Are by Dorothy Parker
5 - Some Ways of Love by Charlotte Mew
6 - The Muse's Tragedy by Edith Wharton
7 - The Sexton's Hero by Elizabeth Gaskell
8 - A Middle Sized Artist by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
9 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley
10 - A Spirit Elopement by Clotilde Graves
11 - A Story of a Wedding Tour by Margaret Oliphant
12 - The Locket by Kate Chopin
13 - On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather
14 - The Canary by Katherine Mansfield
15 - May Afternoon by Catherine Wells
16 - The Night Before Thanksgiving by Sarah Orne Jewett
17 - The Oculist by Catherine Wells
18 - The Dream by Mary Shelley
19 - The Dance by Zona Gale
20 - The Dark Cottage by Mary Cholmondeley
21 - The Way the World Is by Zona Gale
22 - Psychology by Katherine Mansfield
23 - The Shape of Fear by Elia W Peattie
24 - Those Who Wait by Ethel Dell
25 - An Unexpected Fare by Mary Tuttiett writing as Maxwell Gray
26 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman
27 - White Magic by Ella D'Arcy
28 - A Symphony in Lavender by Mary Wilkins E Freeman
29 - The Mass for the Dead by Edith Nesbit
30 - Fantomina or, Love in a Maze - Part 1 by Eliza Haywood
31 - Fantomina or, Love in a Maze - Part 2 by Eliza Haywood
In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did.
But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms. However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender.
Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need. Narratives had new ideas. Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility.
The women included here are talents that dazzle. Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top. Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed.
1 - Women of Wonder - Love - An Introduction
2 - Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield
3 - Uncle Abraham's Romance by Edith Nesbit
4 - Here We Are by Dorothy Parker
5 - Some Ways of Love by Charlotte Mew
6 - The Muse's Tragedy by Edith Wharton
7 - The Sexton's Hero by Elizabeth Gaskell
8 - A Middle Sized Artist by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
9 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley
10 - A Spirit Elopement by Clotilde Graves
11 - A Story of a Wedding Tour by Margaret Oliphant
12 - The Locket by Kate Chopin
13 - On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather
14 - The Canary by Katherine Mansfield
15 - May Afternoon by Catherine Wells
16 - The Night Before Thanksgiving by Sarah Orne Jewett
17 - The Oculist by Catherine Wells
18 - The Dream by Mary Shelley
19 - The Dance by Zona Gale
20 - The Dark Cottage by Mary Cholmondeley
21 - The Way the World Is by Zona Gale
22 - Psychology by Katherine Mansfield
23 - The Shape of Fear by Elia W Peattie
24 - Those Who Wait by Ethel Dell
25 - An Unexpected Fare by Mary Tuttiett writing as Maxwell Gray
26 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman
27 - White Magic by Ella D'Arcy
28 - A Symphony in Lavender by Mary Wilkins E Freeman
29 - The Mass for the Dead by Edith Nesbit
30 - Fantomina or, Love in a Maze - Part 1 by Eliza Haywood
31 - Fantomina or, Love in a Maze - Part 2 by Eliza Haywood
Wonder Of Women - Love Stories: Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940191310183 |
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| Publisher: | The Copyright Group |
| Publication date: | 08/01/2024 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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