Short Stories, Women authors, 19th Century, Women, Social life and customs, Fiction 

Taken together, these twelve short stories provide a fascinating insight into women's lives in the nineteenth century. From Jane Austen's well-mannered story of love and money in the Surrey countryside to Charlotte Mew's desperate keening for the invisible older woman, they deal with divorce, sex, motherhood, finance and home furnishings. All elements, in fact, that continue to make up our own lives at the beginning of this new century. -- from Introduction.  

Genre/Form: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kathryn Hughes; Peter Suart; Folio Society (London, England)
OCLC Number: 1250029605
Notes: "Typeset at The Folio Society in Monotype Bulmer. Printed gorgeous Wove paper by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and bound by them in full cloth blocked with a design by the artist."
Description: xvii, 498 pages : color illustrations ; cm
Contents: The Watsons / Jane Austen --
Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot / Mary Shelley --
The Green Dwarf / Charlotte Brontë --
The Grey Woman / Elizabeth Gaskell --
A Whisper in the Dark / Louisa May Alcott --
The Lifted Veil / George Eliot --
A Pair of Silk Stockings / Kate Chopin --
The Fatal Marriage / Mary Elizabeth Braddon --
The Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
The Buddhist Priest's Wife / Olive Schreiner --
Souls Belated / Edith Wharton --
The China Bowl / Charlotte Mew.
Responsibility: introduced by Kathryn Hughes, illustrated by Peter Suart.