Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is one of the key texts in American women’s fiction and also a rallying cry for feminism. Since its original printing in 1892, it has been routinely anthologized in collections of women’s literature, American literature, and textbooks. This volume gathers nine other equally momentous stories by a diverse group of renowned American women authors who changed the world with their compelling tales. These ten stories testify to the power of the imagination to create personal transformation and political change.
Authors whose stories appear in this unique collection are:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Djuna Barnes
Kate Chopin
Sui Sin Far
Zora Neale Hurston
Nella Larsen
Gertrude Stein
Elizabeth Stoddard
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Edith Wharton
Table of Content
Contents
Introduction | Ulrich Baervii
The Yellow Wallpaper | Charlotte Perkins Gilman1
‘Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper’20
The Two Offers | Frances Ellen Watkins Harper22
The Prescription | Elizabeth Stoddard35
The Story of an Hour | Kate Chopin55
The Reckoning | Edith Wharton59
Mrs. Spring Fragrance | Sui Sin Far83
Miss Furr and Miss Skeene | Gertrude Stein97
What Do You See, Madam? | Djuna Barnes103
Sweat | Zora Neale Hurston109
Sanctuary | Nella Larsen123
Author Biographies130
About the author
Ulrich Baer earned a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Yale. A widely published author, he is University Professor at New York University, and has been awarded Guggenheim, Getty, and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships. He has written numerous books on poetry, photography and cultural politics, and edited and translated Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Dark Interval, Letters on Life, and Letters to a Young Poet. He hosts leading writers and artists on the ‘Think About It’ podcast. In the Warbler Press Contemplations series, he has published: Nietzsche, Rilke, Dickinson, Wilde, and Shakespeare on Love.
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