Rediscoveries
American short stories by women, 1832-1916
by Barbara H. Solomon, Kate Chopin, and Edith Wharton
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This milestone volume of fiction brings together stories that changed the course of American literature as it evolved from romanticism to realism, including America's first naturalistic story. Many of these works have been out of print for more than a century, partly because they were written by women. Nathaniel Hawthorne called the authors "a damned mob of scribbling women," who dared to expose what was in their hearts, as well as their heads. The 33 stories by 21 women writers included here focus on character rather than plot and lead us into parlors, kitchens, and shops where one notices the telling details of a worn but mended carpet, the meal set before an irritable husband, or the oil spilled from a tipped lamp. Powerful emotions, important ideas, and compelling dramas occurring behind the walls of ordinary houses— particularly the struggles of the Sioux, the Chinese, and African Americans as told by minority writers—appear in these tales first published a hundred or more years ago. These selections, along with unfamiliar stories by authors such as Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton, make Rediscoveries a valuable resource and an enriched and expanded vision of our literary history. Here are the missing voices of American literature.
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Rediscoveries: American short stories by women, 1832-1916
1994-01, Mentor
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Rediscoveries: American Short Stories by Women, 1832-1916
January 1, 1994, Signet
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Contains:
Mrs. Washington Potts / Eliza Leslie
The intemperate / Lydia Sigourney
The quadroons / Lydia Maria Child
The seamstress / Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fanny McDermot / Catharine Maria Sedgwick
The angel over the right shoulder / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Uncle Christopher's / Alice Cary
In a cellar / Harriet Prescott Spofford
Life in the iron mills / Rebecca Harding Davis
Lemorne versus Huell / Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
The brothers / Louisa May Alcott
Transcendental wild oats / Louisa May Alcott
How I went out to service / Louisa May Alcott
In the Gray Goth / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Ward)
A mistaken charity / Mary Wilkins Freeman
The revolt of "mother" / Mary Wilkins Freeman
Louisa / Mary Wilkins Freeman
Miss Peck's promotion / Sarah Orne Jewett
Miss Esther's guest / Sarah Orne Jewett
The guests of Mrs. Timms / Sarah Orne Jewett
How Celia changed her mind / Rose Terry Cooke
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Old Mrs. Crosley / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Mrs. Beazley's deeds / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The story of an hour / Kate Chopin
Madame Célestin's divorce / Kate Chopin
A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin
The pelican / Edith Wharton
The other two / Edith Wharton
Xingu / Edith Wharton
The soft-hearted Sioux / Zitkala-S̈a (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin)
Its wavering image / Sui Sin Far
Hope deferred / Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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