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About Wonder Of Women - To Make A Long Story Short: Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

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 Introduction 2 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin 3 - The Story of Sir Bertrand by Anna Laetitia Barbauld 4 - All Souls Eve by Dora Sigerson Shorter 5 - After the Funeral by Mary Butts 6 - Conversation on Conversation by Harriet Beecher Stowe 7 - The Preacher at Hill Station by Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman 8 - The Palace of Death by Emily Bronte 9 - The Lie by Holloway Horn 10 - The Readjustment by Mary Austin 11 - Suggestion by Mrs Ernest Leverson 12 - A Pen and Ink Effect by Frances E Huntley 13 - The Wooing of Pastor Cummings by Georgia F Stewart 14 - My Flirtations by Ella Hepworth Dixon writing as Margaret Wynham 15 - The Three Kisses by Violet Quirk 16 - A Redeeming Sacrifice by Lucy Maud Montgomery 17 - Many Waters Cannot Quench Love by Louisa Baldwin 18 - Aunt Hetty on Matrimony by Fanny Fern, the writing pseudonym for Sarah Payton Parton 19 - Aunt Lindy. A Story Founded on Real Life by Victoria Earle Matthews 20 - Cousin Mary by Mary Russell Mitford 21 - Cuchulain of Muirthemne. The Only Son of Aoife by Lady Augusta Gregory 22 - The Peterkins Decide to Learn the Languages by Lucretia Peabody Hale 23 - My Honoured Master by Catherine Anne Dawson Scott 24 - The Man With No Face by Gertrude Minnie Robins 25 - The Strange Looking Man by Fanny Kemble Johnson 26 - In No Strange Land by Katharine Butler 27 - The Mystery of the Gables by Elsie Norris 28 - Guests Unexpected. A Thanksgiving Story by Maude K Griffin 29 - Breaking the Color Line by Annie McCary 30 - The Casualty List by Winifred Holtby 31 - The Knitted Collar by Mary Anne Hoare 32 - A Knot of Ribbon by Laurence Alma-Tadema 33 - A Dream of Wild Bees by Olive Schreiner 34 - A Lost Masterpiece by Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright writing as George Egerton 35 - The Octoroon's Revenge by Ruth D Todd 36 - The Shape of Fear by Elia W Peattie 37 - Fear by Catherine Wells 38 - The Little Skeleton by Mary Anne Atherstone writing as M A Bird 39 - Napoleon and the Spectre by Charlotte Bronte 40 - The Tyburn Ghost by Wilhelmina FitzClarence, The Countess of Munster 41 - When the Devil Was Well by Gertrude Atherton.wav