Female Authors - A Collection Of Short Stories

A curated collection of short stories from female authors. Defining titles from women pioneers such as Brontë, Woolf, Chopin alongside canons like Lessing, Le Guin, Tokarczuk and young voices of emerging writers, all charting the female experience in all its complexity.

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Uruguay

Vera Giaconi

Freezing Water

alienation - feminism - melancholy - motherhood - suburbia

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USA

Lorrie Moore

How to Talk to Your Mother (notes)

childhood - memories - mother and daughter

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Cuba|UK

Anais Nin

The Mouse

class-gap - classics - history - realism

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Hilary Mantel

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

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Argentina

Alejandra Zina

The Lookout

death - magical realism - melancholy - mystery

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Mexico

Guadalupe Nettel

Ptosis

fetishism - Freudian - manhood - obsession - psychological

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USA

Amy Hempel

At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom

love - realism

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USA

Lucia Berlin

A Manual for Cleaning Women

American culture - class-gap - feminism - funny

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USA

Elif Batuman

Summer in Samarkand

atmospheric - funny - journey - witty

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Jessie Greengrass

An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It

allegory - animals - history - realism

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USA

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper

allegory - female authors - history - women oppression

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Canada

Sheila Heti

Mermaid in the Jar

absurd - female authors - funny - psychological

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