The Neglected Authors - Women - Volume 2: Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

The Neglected Authors - Women - Volume 2: Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

Title: The Neglected Authors - Women - Volume 2: Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours
Author: Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Clotilde Graves, Frances Watkins Harper, Eliza Haywood, Winifred Holtby, Pauline E. Hopkins, Violet Hunt, Vera Jelihovsky, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Amy Levy, Mary E. Mann, Charlotte Mew, Lucy Maud Montgomery & Elinor Mordaunt
Release: 2025-01-01
Kind: audiobook
Genre: Fiction
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The Neglected Authors - Women - Volume 2 Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Clotilde Graves, Frances Watkins Harper, Eliza Haywood, Winifred Holtby, Pauline E. Hopkins, Violet Hunt, Vera Jelihovsky, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Amy Levy, Mary E. Mann, Charlotte Mew, Lucy Maud Montgomery & Elinor Mordaunt
Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.
In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be published in any great number.

In the 15th Century Gutenberg’s printing press began the revolution to address the second and by the 19th century had gathered pace with startling speed and mass distribution. Education for the many was brought in to help people understand more of their world and, with new skills, how to have a better place within it. Now, if the powers that owned the presses and means of distribution agreed an audience would now be able to avail themselves of your ideas, your printed words.

All too often the talents of women have been scorned, mocked and laughed at. In reality that was more usually by those who’s own talents were hardly fit to even grace their shadows.

But society in general still connived and set women to one side in almost everything that men considered their rightful territory. And literature was one such territory. Remarkably resilient as well as talented these women strove to be published, to show themselves as equals. The results more often than not proved that they were.

Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves.

But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age.

In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents whose time has now come again.

More from Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Clotilde Graves, Frances Watkins Harper, Eliza Haywood, Winifred Holtby, Pauline E. Hopkins, Violet Hunt, Vera Jelihovsky, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Amy Levy, Mary E. Mann, Charlotte Mew, Lucy Maud Montgomery & Elinor Mordaunt

Kate Chopin, Rebecca Harding Davis, Mary Wilkins Freeman & Ellen Glasgow
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Ellen Glasgow, H. P. Lovecraft, Richard Connell, Ring Lardner, Robert E. Howard, Rudolph Fisher, Tod Robbins & Zane Grey
Willa Cather, Dorothy Parker, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Ellen Glasgow, Emma Vane, Gertrude Stein, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Martha Gruening, Susan Glaspell & Zona Gale
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Aphra Behn, Anatole France, D. H. Lawrence, Dorothy Parker, Ellen Glasgow, Frances Watkins Harper, Kenneth Grahame & Khalil Gibran
Virginia Woolf, Thomas Hardy, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Anton Chekhov, O. Henry, Honoré de Balzac, Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, Israel Zangwill, Sherwood Anderson, Ellen Glasgow, Kenneth Grahame, Bret Harte, Ada Radford, Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens, Hugo Crackanthorpe, Marjorie Bowen, Ambrose Bierce & Edith Nesbit
Edith Wharton, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ellen Glasgow, Kate Chopin, Mary Shelley, Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf & Willa Cather
Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Alicia Ramsay, Dorothy Edwards, Elinor Mordaunt, Ellen Glasgow, Helen Simpson, Mary Cholmonderly, Mary Webb & Radclyffe Hall
Kate Chopin, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Marjorie Bowen, Ada Radford, May Sinclair, Ellen Glasgow & Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens
Gertrude Atherton, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Zona Gale, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Frances Watkins Harper, Pauline E. Hopkins, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Georgia F Stewart, Ruth D Todd & Eudora Welty
Ellen Glasgow
Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Kate Chopin, Mary Shelley, Guy de Maupassant, Sherwood Anderson, Israel Zangwill, Edith Nesbit, Kenneth Grahame, Ellen Glasgow, Constance Cotterell, Ella D'Arcy, Giovanni Verga, Rudyard Kipling & Tod Robbins
Mark Twain, O. Henry, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Ellen Glasgow, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Robert E. Howard, Rudolph Fisher, Ruth D Todd, Thomas Wolfe & Willa Cather
Gertrude Atherton, Marjorie Bowen, D. K. Broster, Mary Cholmondeley, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Ella D'Arcy, E. M. Delafield, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Lettice Galbraith, Zona Gale, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Clotilde Graves, Winifred Holtby, Pauline E. Hopkins, Violet Hunt, Amy Levy & Charlotte Mew
Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, Ellen Glasgow, Dorothy Edwards, Elinor Mordaunt, Mary Webb, Marjorie Bowen, Violet Hunt & Helen Simpson
Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Clotilde Graves, Frances Watkins Harper, Eliza Haywood, Winifred Holtby, Pauline E. Hopkins, Violet Hunt, Vera Jelihovsky, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Amy Levy, Mary E. Mann, Charlotte Mew, Lucy Maud Montgomery & Elinor Mordaunt
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kate Chopin, D. H. Lawrence, Aphra Behn, Khalil Gibran, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ellen Glasgow, Bithia Mary Croker, Anton Chekhov, O. Henry, Amy Levy, William James Lampton, Tod Robbins, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman & Frances Watkins Harper
Ellen Glasgow
John Galsworthy, John Galt, Richard Garnett, Vsevolod Garshin, W. L. George, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Clotilde Graves, Knut Hamsun, Henry Harland, Frances Watkins Harper, W. F. Harvey, Jaroslav Hašek, Eliza Haywood, Lafcadio Hearn, Johann Hebel, Heinrich Heine, William Hope Hodgson, Winifred Holtby, Pauline E. Hopkins, E. W. Hornung & Robert E. Howard