«America is now wholly given over to a d - d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their tras

From the Publisher: A new mother longing to write is judged "hysterical" and confined to her bedroom where she slowly loses herself in horrific fantasy. A young

The ranks of English women writers rose steeply in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, contributing to the era’s revolutionary social movements as well as

Essays tracing the evolving relationship between British women writers and the short story genre from the late Nineteenth Century to the present day.

This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social