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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812611003321

Titolo

Dreams, visions, and realities [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Stephanie Forward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Birmingham, : University of Birmingham Press, c2003

ISBN

1-281-29220-6

9786611292201

1-84714-264-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Collana

Late Victorian and early Modernist women writers

Altri autori (Persone)

ForwardStephanie <1955->

Disciplina

823/.0108

Soggetti

Short stories, English

Short stories, American

English fiction - Women authors

American fiction - Women authors

English fiction - 19th century

English fiction - 20th century

American fiction - 19th century

American fiction - 20th century

Women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxviii-xxxii).

Nota di contenuto

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 / MeĢnie 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.

Sommario/riassunto

This is an anthology of short stories which captures the diverse range



of concerns confronting women writers of the turn of the twentieth century.