Female Authors – Page 9 – The Short Story Project

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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Edith Nesbit

The Marble Child

horror - mystery - religion - suspense

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Mary Shelley

The Invisible Girl

classics - female authors - love - lovers

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Jane Austen

The History of England

female authors - Great Britain - satire - witty

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USA

Edith Wharton

The Fulness of Life

classics - love - marriage - melancholy

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Spain

Margarita Leoz

An Enchanting Evening

family - loneliness - parenthood - relationships

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New Zealand

Katherine Mansfield

The Garden Party

class-gap - classics

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USA

Amy Gustine

Goldene Medene

American literature - dark - immigration - loneliness

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Slovakia

Tera Fabiánová

How I Went to School

childhood - coming of age - memories - realism - school days

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Israel

Tasha Karluka

Chicken Morning, Noon and Night

love - old age - school days - Soviet Russia

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USA

Gertrude Stein

The Gentle Lena

alienation - classics - family - melancholy - poverty

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Italy

Elsa Morante

The Secret Game

adventures - childhood - dark - family - loneliness

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New Zealand

Katherine Mansfield

The Daughters of the Late Colonel

classics - coming of age - death - sisters - witty

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