| Description |
400 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The last crop / Elizabeth Jolley -- The Débutante / Leonora Carrington -- from The Gloria stories / Rocy Gámez -- Life / Bessie Head -- A Guatemalan idyll / Jane Bowles -- The young girl / Katherine Mansfield -- Three feminist fables / Suniti Namjoshi -- The rainy moon / Colette -- Wedlock / George Egerton -- Violet / Frances Towers -- The plums / Ama Ata Aidoo -- A woman young and old / Grace Paley -- The long trial / Andrée Chedid -- The loves of Lady Purple / Angela Carter -- The earth / Djuna Barnes -- Oke of Okehurst / Vernon Lee -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Aunt Liu / Luo Shu. |
| Subject |
Women -- Fiction.
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Women -- Fiction. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Carter, Angela, 1940-1992.
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| Added Title |
Book of wayward girls and wicked women |
| ISBN |
9781844086979 hardback |
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1844086976 hardback |
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