Publisher's Synopsis
Excellent short stories The best short fiction ever written by British women is collected in By British Women. This book analyses what women writers may contribute to this broad genre and what it might reveal about the society and culture they live in. This book examines the development of the genre through to its continuous attractiveness to women writers in the present, taking into account the impact of literary inheritances, socioeconomic and cultural change, and evolution.
These short stories were written by several authors, including Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, and Jane Austen.
