Wonder Of Women - To Make A Long Story Short

Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many. In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did.But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms. However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender.Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need. Narratives had new ideas. Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility.The women included here are talents that dazzle. Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top. Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed. 1 - Women of Wonder - To Make A Long Story Short - An Introduction2 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin3 - The Story of Sir Bertrand by Anna Laetitia Barbauld4 - All Souls Eve by Dora Sigerson Shorter5 - After the Funeral by Mary Butts6 - Conversation on Conversation by Harriet Beecher Stowe7 - The Preacher at Hill Station by Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman8 - The Palace of Death by Emily Bronte9 - The Lie by Holloway Horn10 - The Readjustment by Mary Austin11 - Suggestion by Mrs Ernest Leverson12 - A Pen and Ink Effect by Frances E Huntley13 - The Wooing of Pastor Cummings by Georgia F Stewart14 - My Flirtations by Ella Hepworth Dixon writing as Margaret Wynham15 - The Three Kisses by Violet Quirk16 - A Redeeming Sacrifice by Lucy Maud Montgomery17 - Many Waters Cannot Quench Love by Louisa Baldwin18 - Aunt Hetty on Matrimony by Fanny Fern, the writing pseudonym for Sarah Payton Parton19 - Aunt Lindy. A Story Founded on Real Life by Victoria Earle Matthews20 - Cousin Mary by Mary Russell Mitford21 - Cuchulain of Muirthemne. The Only Son of Aoife by Lady Augusta Gregory22 - The Peterkins Decide to Learn the Languages by Lucretia Peabody Hale23 - My Honoured Master by Catherine Anne Dawson Scott24 - The Man With No Face by Gertrude Minnie Robins25 - The Strange Looking Man by Fanny Kemble Johnson26 - In No Strange Land by Katharine Butler27 - The Mystery of the Gables by Elsie Norris28 - Guests Unexpected. A Thanksgiving Story by Maude K Griffin29 - Breaking the Color Line by Annie McCary30 - The Casualty List by Winifred Holtby31 - The Knitted Collar by Mary Anne Hoare32 - A Knot of Ribbon by Laurence Alma-Tadema33 - A Dream of Wild Bees by Olive Schreiner34 - A Lost Masterpiece by Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright writing as George Egerton35 - The Octoroon's Revenge by Ruth D Todd36 - The Shape of Fear by Elia W Peattie37 - Fear by Catherine Wells38 - The Little Skeleton by Mary Anne Atherstone writing as M A Bird39 - Napoleon and the Spectre by Charlotte Bronte40 - The Tyburn Ghost by Wilhelmina FitzClarence, The Countess of Munster41 - When the Devil Was Well by Gertrude Atherton.wav