Short Fiction

19th Century

  • Sui Sin Far

  • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

  • Sarah Orne Jewett

  • Anna Katharine Green

20th Century

  • Zitkála-Šá

  • Susan Glaspell

  • J. California Cooper

  • Zona Gale

  • Charlotte Armstrong

  • Pearl S. Buck

  • Nella Larsen

  • Mary TallMountain

  • Grace Livingston Hill

  • Hisaye Yamamoto

  • Wakako Yamauchi

  • Martha Gellhorn

  • Anna Lee Walters

  • Angelina Weld Grimké

  • Emily Ivanoff (Ticasuk) Brown

“'Father, you come here.' Sarah Penn stood in the door like a queen; she held her head as if it bore a crown; there was that patience which makes authority royal in her voice. Adoniram went”

-Mary E. Wilkins Freeman