Standing Her Ground

Classic Short Stories by Trailblazing Women

De: Harriet Sanders - editor

Narrado por: Kristin Atherton, Norma Butikofer, Rachel Handshaw, Sophie Roberts, Stephanie Racine, Thomas Judd

All the stories in Standing Her Ground have been chosen to celebrate the skill, passion and achievements of women writers spanning 100 years of innovation.

Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, this edition is edited by Harriet Sanders.

Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for literature. Writer and activist Alice Dunbar Nelson was an early adopter of the Harlem Renaissance movement. Kate Chopin and Elizabeth Gaskell dared to explore themes outside the strict social codes of their times. And Virginia Woolf was hugely influential in both the feminist and modernist movements.

From ‘The Manchester Marriage’, in which a husband, supposedly drowned at sea, returns to find his daughter, to the two sisters who are comically adrift after the death of their domineering father in ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’, and a young girl who enlists the help of a sorceress to win back her boyfriend in ‘The Goodness of Saint Rocque’, Standing Her Ground showcases nine groundbreaking women writers.

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