Welcome to the book series 7 best short stories specials, selection dedicated to a special subject, featuring works by noteworthy authors. The texts were chosen based on their relevance, renown and interest. This edition is dedicated to Feminist Fiction.
Feminist literature is fiction, nonfiction, drama, or poetry, which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing, and defending equal civil, political, economic, and social rights for women. It often identifies women’s roles as unequal to those of men – particularly as regarding status, privilege, and power – and generally portrays the consequences to societies as undesirable.
This book contains the following texts:
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman;
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin;
The Gentle Lena by Gertrude Stein;
The Fullness of Life by Edith Wharton;
The Marble Child by Edith Nesbit;
A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell;
Bliss by Katherine Mansfield.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known as Charlotte Perkins Stetson, her first married name, was an American humanist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform.
Kate Chopin (February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or Catholic background.
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector.
Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
Edith Nesbit (15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit.
Susan Glaspell (July 1, 1876 – July 28, 1948) was an American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress.
Kathleen Mansfield (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent modernist writer who was born and brought up in New Zealand.
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