Aurora Floyd
Mary Elizabeth Braddon and P. D. Edwards (ed.)
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‘With Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon had established herself, alongside Wilkie Collins and Mrs Henry Wood, as one of the ruling ...
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The Awakening: And Other Stories
Kate Chopin and Pamela Knights (ed.)
‘She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.’ Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new ...
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The Female Quixote: or The Adventures of Arabella
Charlotte Lennox, Margaret Dalziel (ed.), and Margaret Anne Doody
The Female Quixote (1752), a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays the beautiful and aristocratic Arabella, whose passion for reading romances leads her ...
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Lady Audley's Secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Lyn Pykett (ed.)
It only rests with yourself to become Lady Audley, and the mistress of Audley Court.’ When beautiful young Lucy Graham accepts the hand of Sir Michael Audley, her fortune and her future ...
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The Last Man
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Morton D. Paley (ed.)
The last man! I may well describe that solitary being’s feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.’ Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). ...
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Elizabeth Gaskell and Angus Easson (ed.)
It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.' Patrick Brontë Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one ...
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The Story of an African Farm
Olive Schreiner and Joseph Bristow (ed.)
Lyndall, Schreiner's articulate young feminist, marks the entry of the controversial New Woman into nineteenth-century fiction. Raised as an orphan amid a makeshift family, she witnesses an ...
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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Robert Shulman (ed.)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of her ...
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