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- catalog abstract "This essential collection, the first of its kind, draws together twenty-six stories by vital women writers. Here are stories written by the famous and by those whose names are less well known; recluses and extroverts; the rich and the impoverished; novelists and poets; heterosexuals, bisexuals, and lesbians. Many were American and English expatriates caught up in the artistic revolt of Paris between 1890 and 1940; others, who ventured forth in imagination only, drew on. Its innovative spirit. Many refuted traditional concepts of gender and sexuality; all challenged restrictive definitions of femininity. Colette, H.D., Susan Glaspell, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, Anais Nin, Dorothy Richardson, Jean Rhys, and May Sinclair number among this period's host of accomplished women writers. A woman becomes obsessed by a life-size doll and rescues the memory of its original model from neglect; another keeps. An array of Parisian gowns under lock and key rather than join the masquerade of fashion; two housewives use their attention to domestic detail to detect--and shield--a murderer. Here are writers who cast aside conventions. Rebellious, talented, provocative, they parade their tales of those who take life on their own terms--you know, that kind of woman.".
- catalog contributor b3716669.
- catalog contributor b3716670.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "An array of Parisian gowns under lock and key rather than join the masquerade of fashion; two housewives use their attention to domestic detail to detect--and shield--a murderer. Here are writers who cast aside conventions. Rebellious, talented, provocative, they parade their tales of those who take life on their own terms--you know, that kind of woman.".
- catalog description "Illusion / Jean Rhys -- The doll / Vernon Lee -- The golden bough / Mary Butts -- The story of a story / Stevie Smith -- Street sister / Mina Loy -- Wedding day / Kay Boyle -- The new dress / Virginia Woolf -- A country house / Dorothy Edwards -- Pigeon, fly! / Leonora Carrington -- Venetian perspective / Janet Flanner -- The token / May Sinclair -- A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- Katrina Silverstaff / Djuana Barnes -- A dill pickle / Katherine Mansfield -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The hand / Colette -- Sanctuary / Nella Larsen -- Miss Furr and Miss Skeene / Gertrude Stein -- Visitor / Dorothy Richardson -- Kora and Ka / H.D. -- Male and female / Frances Gregg -- Extract / Bryher -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- The spell of the white elf / George Egerton -- Interlude / Emily Holmes Coleman -- Ragtime / Anaïs Nin.".
- catalog description "Its innovative spirit. Many refuted traditional concepts of gender and sexuality; all challenged restrictive definitions of femininity. Colette, H.D., Susan Glaspell, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, Anais Nin, Dorothy Richardson, Jean Rhys, and May Sinclair number among this period's host of accomplished women writers. A woman becomes obsessed by a life-size doll and rescues the memory of its original model from neglect; another keeps.".
- catalog description "This essential collection, the first of its kind, draws together twenty-six stories by vital women writers. Here are stories written by the famous and by those whose names are less well known; recluses and extroverts; the rich and the impoverished; novelists and poets; heterosexuals, bisexuals, and lesbians. Many were American and English expatriates caught up in the artistic revolt of Paris between 1890 and 1940; others, who ventured forth in imagination only, drew on.".
- catalog extent "p. cm.".
- catalog identifier "0881848530 :".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Carroll & Graf,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "823/.01089287 20".
- catalog subject "American fiction Women authors.".
- catalog subject "English fiction Women authors.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) United States.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature)".
- catalog subject "PR1309.W7 T48 1992".
- catalog subject "Short stories, American.".
- catalog subject "Short stories, English.".
- catalog subject "Women Great Britain Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Women United States Fiction.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Illusion / Jean Rhys -- The doll / Vernon Lee -- The golden bough / Mary Butts -- The story of a story / Stevie Smith -- Street sister / Mina Loy -- Wedding day / Kay Boyle -- The new dress / Virginia Woolf -- A country house / Dorothy Edwards -- Pigeon, fly! / Leonora Carrington -- Venetian perspective / Janet Flanner -- The token / May Sinclair -- A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- Katrina Silverstaff / Djuana Barnes -- A dill pickle / Katherine Mansfield -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The hand / Colette -- Sanctuary / Nella Larsen -- Miss Furr and Miss Skeene / Gertrude Stein -- Visitor / Dorothy Richardson -- Kora and Ka / H.D. -- Male and female / Frances Gregg -- Extract / Bryher -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- The spell of the white elf / George Egerton -- Interlude / Emily Holmes Coleman -- Ragtime / Anaïs Nin.".
- catalog title "That kind of woman / edited by Bronte Adams and Trudi Tate.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".