The Top Ten - 19th Century Women

This century unfolds with a fast-changing world riven by immense wars and glutton hungry Empires. Women strive to win the most basic of rights, the right to vote. Their literary testament is now a vital part of our cultural world. They write on all manner of subjects with truth, with imagination and with undeniable talent. We are all the richer for their words.1 - The Top Ten - 20th Century Women2 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather3 - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf4 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield5 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Gaspell6 - Here We Are by Dorothy Parker7 - The Face in the Glass by Mary Elizabeth Braddon8 - The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railroad by Baroness Orczy9 - Rooms by Gertrude Stein10 - White Bread by Zona Gale11 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson