Women Short Story Writers - Margaret Atwood, Flannery O'Connor, Daphne Du Maurier, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Maria Edgeworth, Katherine Mansfield, (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 77. Chapters: Margaret Atwood, Flannery O'Connor, Daphne du Maurier, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Maria Edgeworth, Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame, Alice Fulton, Alice Munro, Malorie Blackman, Marguerite de Navarre, Marjorie Barnard, Gillian Bradshaw, Helen Garner, A. S. Byatt, Karin Kallmaker, Thea Astley, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Mary Hood, Eliza Calvert Hall, Emma Donoghue, Glenda Adams, Clare Winger Harris, Antonia White, Edna O'Brien, Elizabeth Gilbert, Musine Kokalari, Lydia Davis, ZZ Packer, Sara Maitland, Susanna Moodie, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Ali Smith, Natalia Ginzburg, Tove Ditlevsen, Sally Miller Gearhart, Vera Panova, Jessica Anderson, Nina Berberova, Johanna Sinisalo, Amy Bloom, Kirsten Menger-Anderson, Mary Lavin, Catherine Crowe, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, Diane Williams, Eliza Lanesford Cushing, Fiona Kidman, Eugenia Rico, Michele Roberts, Sarah Dreher, Laura Freixas, Janhavi Acharekar, Merlinda Bobis, Eva Anstruther, Maria Rybakova, Harriet Vaughan Cheney, Maarja Kangro, Julia Watts, Beverley Farmer, Carmel Bird, Lydia Wevers, Alifa Rifaat, Thelma Forshaw, Lisa Fugard, Anya Ulinich, K. J. Bishop, Claire Weaver, Diana Gould. Excerpt: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 - August 17, 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story The Yellow Wallpaper which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis. Charlotte was born on July 3, 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, to Mary Perkins (formerly Mary Fitch Westcott) and Frederick Beecher Perkins....