Female Authors – 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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Alice Dunbar-Nelson

A Carnival Jangle

American culture - American literature - atmospheric - classics - female authors - violence

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Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Violets

American literature - female authors - unrequited love

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Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Little Miss Sophie

American culture - American literature - classics - female authors - unrequited love

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Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Sister Josepha

American literature - classics - coming of age - female authors

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Zitkala-Ša

The School Days of an Indian Girl

coming of age - female authors - loneliness - memories

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Virginia Woolf

An Unwritten Novel

female authors - modernism - writing

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Virginia Woolf

Solid Objects

classics - female authors - psychological

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Mary Shelley

Transformation

classics - female authors - journey

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Mary Shelley

The Mortal Immortal

classics - female authors - loneliness - memories

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Amanda Miles

Disappearing Acts

coming of age - female authors

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Jane Austen

Love and Freindship

classics - female authors - funny - irony - relationships - witty

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Jane Austen

Amelia Webster

classics - epistolary - female authors - funny - irony - marriage - relationships - witty

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