Women Who Did Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914

Charting a world transformed by social, literary, sexual, and cultural upheaval, an anthology of short fiction looks at society through the eyes of women as they confront new choices in marriage, motherhood, love, and work, in tales by Oscar Wilde, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Thomas Hardy, and other notable authors, as well as biographies of the authors, a detailed chronology of social and literary history, and more. Original.