
Wonder of Women - The Darker Sex
Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature
Author: George Eliot, Francis Stevens, Violet Jacob, Clotilde Graves
Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
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Published: 1st January 2025
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Let's be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.
In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did.
But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms. However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender.
Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need. Narratives had new ideas. Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility.
The women included here are talents that dazzle. Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top. Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed.
They still speak to us with a clear and unique voice.
In this volume we have gathered together stories that reveal a darker side, a more complicated aspect to the nature of women authors.
In their words powerful stories are given greater depth, more nuance and force purely when written through the prism of their individual and unique talents.
1 - Women of Wonder - The Darker Sex - An Introduction
2 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot
3 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot
4 - Behind the Curtain by Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens
5 - Behind the Wall by Violet Jacob
6 - Under The Electrics by Clotilde Graves writing as Richard Dehan
7 - The Shadow on the Blind by Louisa Baldwin
8 - The Palace of Death by Emily Bronte
9 - In the Seance Room by Lettice Galbraith
10 - In the Mist by Mary E Penn
11 - The Face in the Glass by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
12 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
13 - The Strange Looking Man by Fanny Kemble Johnson
14 - Tamar by Lady Eleanor Smith
15 - Sylvia by Bessie Kyffin Taylor
16 - Luz by Elinor Mordaunt
17 - Lena Wrace by May Sinclair
18 - John Charrington's Wedding by Edith Nesbit
19 - The Devil's Mother-in-Law by Fernan Caballeron
20 - The Three Kisses by Violet Quirk
21 - The Last of Squire Ennismore by Charlotte Riddell
22 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
23 - In Dark New England Days by Sarah Orne Jewett
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ISBN: 9781836826439
ISBN-10: 1836826435
Published: 1st January 2025
Format: Digital Audiobook
Language: English
Publisher: The Copyright Group
Duration: 11:42.56