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    The Victorian Women Writers Collection
    The Victorian Women Writers Collection
    The Victorian Women Writers Collection
    Audiobook13 hours

    The Victorian Women Writers Collection

    Written by Edith Nesbit, Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    A fascinating collection of short stories by some of the greatest Victorian female writers. This anthology covers every theme from spirits and the occult to love and sexuality to sentimentality and romance to social observation and critique.

    'The Operation' by Violet Hunt
    'Satan's Circus' by Eleanor Smith
    'A Dream of Wild Bees' by Olive Schreiner
    'A Dill Pickle' by Katherine Mansfield
    'Squirrel in a Cage' by E. M. Delafield
    'Afterward' by Edith Wharton
    'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin
    'The Artist's Secret' by Olive Schreiner
    'The Marquise' by George Sand
    'Mansize in Marble' by Edith Nesbit
    'In a Far off World' by Olive Schreiner
    'The Lifted Veil' by George Eliot
    'The Mortal Immortal' by Mary Shelley
    'Mrs Raeburn's Waxwork' by Eleanor Smith
    'The Dolls' House' by Katherine Mansfield
    'The Violet Car' by Edith Nesbit
    'The Apple Tree' by Katherine Mansfield
    'The Eyes' by Edith Wharton
    'The King Is Dead, Long Live the King' by Mary Coleridge
    'An Idyll of London' by Beatrice Harraden
    'The Singing Lesson' by Katherine Mansfield
    'The Storm' by Kate Chopin
    'The Sailor Uncle' by Mary Lamb
    'The Hired Baby' by Marie Corelli
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateOct 10, 2015
    ISBN9781509495597
    The Victorian Women Writers Collection
    Author

    Edith Nesbit

    Edith Nesbit (Londres, 1858-1924) escritora y poetisa que viajó por Inglaterra, España y Francia. Se casó a los 21 años con el político Hubert Bland, con quien tuvo cinco hijos. Su vida fue una continua lucha contra la rectitud victoriana de la época. Es conocida por sus libros para niños llenos de humor y con un estilo innovador que, en ocasiones, desarrolla las aventuras de los protagonistas en una realidad cotidiana con elementos mágicos.

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