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Virginia’s Sisters - An Anthology of Women's Writing - cover

Virginia’s Sisters - An Anthology of Women's Writing

Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Zelda Fitzgerald, Radclyffe Hall, Anna Akhmatova, Mansfield Katherine, Marina Tsvetayeva, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, May Ziadeh, Fausta Cialente, Carmen de Burgos, Sorana Gurian, Magda Isanos, Nataliya Kobrynska, Maria Messina, Gabriela Mistral, Fani Popova-Mutafova, Antonia Pozzi, Yenta Serdatsky, Ling Shuhua, Dorka Talmon, Myra Viola Wylds

Publisher: Aurora Metro Books

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Summary

A unique anthology of short stories and poetry by feminist contemporaries of Virginia Woolf, who were writing about work, discrimination, war, relationships, sexuality and love in the early part of the 20th Century.
 
Includes works by English and American writers Zelda Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Radclyffe Hall, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf, alongside their recently rediscovered ‘sisters’ from around the world. This book offers a diverse and international array of over 20 literary gems from women writers living in Bulgaria, Chile, China, Egypt, France, Italy, Palestine, Romania, Russia, Spain and Ukraine.
 
List of authors and works included:
 
A Woman by Fani Popova-Mutafova (translated by Petya Pavlova)Thoughts by Myra Viola WildsThe Little Governess by Katherine MansfieldVilla Myosotis by Sorana Gurian (translated by Gabi Reigh)The Mark on the Wall by Virginia WoolfMiss Ogilvy Finds Herself [extract] by Radclyffe HallI sit and sew by Alice Dunbar NelsonFirst Steps [extract] by Dorka Talmon (translated by Mira Glover)Coming Home by Maria Messina (translated by Juliette Neil)Vegetal Reverie by Magda Isanos (translated by Gabi Reigh)The Iceberg by Zelda FitzgeraldThe Russian Princess by Carmen de Burgos (translated by Slava Faybysh)Bring to Me All… by Marina Tsvetaeva (translated by Nina Kossman)Autres Temps by Edith WhartonUnheard by Yente Serdatsky (translated by Dalia Wolfson)Fog by Gabriela Mistral (translated by Stuart Cooke)Natalia [extract] by Fausta Cialente (translated by Laura Shanahan)What makes this century worse? by Anna Akhmatova (translated by Olga Livshin)Broken by Nataliya Kobrynska (translated by Hanna Leliv & Slava Faybysh)Sunset by Antonia Pozzi (translated by Sonia di Placido)Once Upon A Time by Ling Shuhua (translated by Leilei Chen)Their Religions and our Marriages: Herland [extract] by Charlotte Perkins GilmanGoodbye Lebanon by May Ziadeh (translated by Rose DeMaris)
Available since: 10/06/2023.
Print length: 272 pages.

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