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The Female Short Story. A Chronological History - Volume 3: Volume 3 - Charlotte Riddell to Mary E Penn

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A wise man once said ‘The safest place for a child is in the arms of his mother’s voice’. This is a perfect place to start our anthology of female short stories.

Some of our earliest memories are of our mothers telling us bedtime stories. This is not to demote the value of fathers but more to promote the often-overshadowed talents of the gentler sex.

Perhaps ‘gentler’ is a word that we should re-evaluate. In the course of literary history it is men who dominated by opportunity and with their stranglehold on the resources, both financial and technological, who brought their words to a wider audience. Men often placed women on a pedestal from where their talented words would not threaten their own.

In these stories we begin with the original disrupter and renegade author Aphra Behn. A peek at her c. v. shows an astounding capacity and leaves us wondering at just how she did all that.

In those less modern days to be a woman, even ennobled, was to be seen as second class. You literally were chattel and had almost no rights in marriage. As Charlotte Smith famously said your role as wife was little more than ‘legal prostitute’. From such a despicable place these authors have used their talents and ideas and helped redress that situation.

Slowly at first. Privately printed, often anonymously or under the cloak of a male pseudonym their words spread. Their stories admired and, usually, their role still obscured from rightful acknowledgement.

Aided by more advanced technology, the 1700’s began to see a steady stream of female writers until by the 1900’s mass market publishing saw short stories by female authors from all the strata of society being avidly read by everyone. Their names are a rollcall of talent and ‘can do’ spirit and society is richer for their works.

In literature at least women are now acknowledged as equals, true behind the scenes little has changed but if (and to mis-quote Jane Austen) there is one universal truth, it is that ideas change society. These women’s most certainly did and will continue to do so as they easily write across genres, from horror and ghost stories to tender tales of love and making your way in society’s often grueling rut. They will not be silenced, their ideas and passion move emotions, thoughts and perhaps more importantly our ingrained view of what every individual human being is capable of.

Within these stories you will also find very occasional examples of historical prejudice. A few words here and there which in today’s world some may find inappropriate or even offensive. It is not our intention to make anyone uncomfortable but to show that the world in order to change must reconcile itself to the actual truth rather than put it out of sight. Context is everything, both to understand and to illuminate the path forward. The author’s words are set, our reaction to them encourages our change.

It is because of their desire to speak out, their desire to add their talents to the bias around them that we perhaps live in more enlightened, almost equal, times.

© 2021 Miniature Masterpieces (Rafbók): 9781803540092

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Rafbók: 10 november 2021

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  1. The Uninhabited House Charlotte Riddell
  2. Classic Poems for Girls Various authors
  3. Classic Poems for Boys Various authors
  4. Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne
  5. Sevastopol Sketches Leo Tolstoy
  6. The Gin Palace Émile Zola
  7. The Peasant Marey Fyodor Dostoevsky
  8. The Masterpiece Émile Zola
  9. Tales From Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2 Edgar Allan Poe
  10. The Arabian Nights Various authors
  11. Little Women Louisa May Alcott
  12. The Railway Children Edith Nesbit
  13. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
  14. Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol
  15. Persuasion Jane Austen
  16. The Top 10 Short Stories - Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott
  17. The Possessed Fyodor Dostoevsky
  18. An International Episode Henry James
  19. A Dog’s Heart Mikhail Bulgakov
  20. The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1900's - The Women Edith Nesbit
  21. Life on the Mississippi Mark G. Twain
  22. The World Does Move: “The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her” Booth Tarkington
  23. Harry Heathcote Of Gangoil Anthony Trollope
  24. A Small Boy and Others Henry James
  25. The Sire de Maletroit's Door Robert Louis Stevenson
  26. Snowflakes and Sunbeams R. M. Ballantyne
  27. Daughters of Destiny L. Frank Baum
  28. Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope
  29. Women: “It was annoying how her voice, though never loud, pursued him” Booth Tarkington
  30. The Entail E.T.A Hoffmann
  31. The Gentleman From Indiana: “Congress is our great virtue, understand; the congressmen are our fault” Booth Tarkington
  32. The Affair at Coulter's Notch Ambrose Bierce
  33. Short Stories Fyodor Dostoevsky
  34. Boston Blackie: Mary Disappears Jack Boyle
  35. An Outcast of the Islands Joseph Conrad
  36. Captain Courageous Rudyard Kipling
  37. Hume's Dialogues David Hume
  38. Sigmund Freud: Life and Work Stefan Zweig
  39. Rapid Japanese, Vol. 2 Earworms Learning
  40. The World Minute at Waterloo Stefan Zweig
  41. Aristotle's Poetics Aristotle
  42. Lion Boy and Drummer Girl Pauline Loh
  43. The Discovery of Eldorado Stefan Zweig

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