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Aspiring Women

Short Stories by Canadian Women, 1880-1900

edited by Lorraine McMullen & Sandra Campbell

Publisher
Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1993
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780776603674
    Publish Date
    Jan 1993
    List Price
    $24.00 USD

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Description

Aspiring Women is an anthology of short fiction written by Canadian women between 1880 and 1900. It includes stories by Sara Jeannette Duncan, Margaret Marshall Saunders, and E. Pauline Johnson. Written during a period when both the short story form and the situation of women were evolving, the stories demonstrate the authors' creativity in expressing the realities and tensions of the changing female role.
Published in English.

About the authors

Lorraine McMullen is professor emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa and adjunct professor at the University of Victoria. She is co-editor of a three-volume anthology of short stories written by Canadian women: Pioneering Women: Beginnings to 1880; Aspiring Women: 1880-1900 and New Women: 1900-1920 (UOP: 1993, 1993 and 1991) and co-author of Silenced Sextet: Six Nineteenth-Century Canadian Women Novelists (1993).

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