Dreams, Visions and Realities: An anthology of short stories by turn-of-the-century women writers

by Stephanie Forward (Editor)

This anthology introduces stories written by British and American Women from 1877 to 1910. The collection and the detailed, authoritative, introduction and notes, will enable the twenty-first-century reader to explore the themes and techniques these women developed as the Victorian was superseded by a new, Modernist, sensibility. Authors covered include Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Kate Chopin.

Genres: Short Stories

166 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2003

Reviews

[Iris · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an amazingly concise and well chosen group of short stories. They are somewhat varied in intensity and impact, the tragedy in Charlotte Mew's A White Night isn't only the outcome but how slow and ineluctable it seems to be, and how discouraging it is to the female protagonist, whereas Evelyn Sharp's The Game That Wasn't Cricket is short, sharp and defiantly hopeful.

Most are findable, if one knows the story's source, by persistent scouring through the public domain but it's wonderful to have this diverse group of stories and women writers gathered into a sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing but always thought provoking collection.