British Women Writers and the Short Story, 1850-1930 Reclaiming Social Space [Hardcover]

This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how they could be identified, and whether they could be contained.List of Illustrations Introduction Feminine Occupations 1. The Spinster Re-Drawing Rooms in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford 2. M.E. Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and the Specter of Social Critique 3. Possessing London: The Yellow Book's Women Writers 4. Barbara Baynton and Katherine Mansfield's Unsettling Women Conclusion Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Narratives of Obscurity Bibliography Index

Kate Kruegers BritishWomen Writers and the Short Story addresses women writers use of social spacein two key ways: the social space of the short story itself, which Kruegerreads as an apt political space for women writers; and physical spaces, rangingfrom drawing rooms to city streets to colonial outposts. & Throughout, Kruegeroffers detailed readings that are attentive to each texts periodical printcontext, and this is a real strength of the volume. (Sigrid Anderson Cordell,Sharp News, Vol. 24 (4), 2015)

Wide-ranging, incisive and thoroughly readable, this will be essential reading for anyone interested in women writers' contribution to the short story tradition. - Ailsa Cox, Edgehill University, UK

Kate Krueger is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Women and Gender Studies at Arkansas State University, USA, specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature. She has previously published on the short fiction of Virginia Woolf, George Egerton, Charlotte Mew, and Evelyn Sharp.