19th century short stories

[ShadowSwifter]

Hi guys

can anyone recommend me a good short story on 19th century woman?


thanks

[wessexgirl]

Hi guys

can anyone recommend me a good short story on 19th century woman?


thanks

Hi. Do you want any story about 19th century women, or particular themes or aspects? I just wondered as the first really short story that came to mind was Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" which is a psychological study of the character suffering mental illness/madness after childbirth. It's regarded as an iconic feminist work, and shows the treatment a woman with post-natal depression received, but it's also a sort of gothic tale too, with her being confined against her will.

[Pecksie]

I don't know whether these really qualify as being about "19th century women", since they were written around the turn of the twentieth century, but O. Henry's stories about New York shopgirls are always funny, often harrowing.

I'd also suggest (from roughly the same period) Edith Wharton's novellas.

[JBI]

This ones a favorite with Highschool teachers - Kate Chopin's Story of an Hour.