Once again on the American side of the Atlantic talent pours forth from the pens of these literary women.  Even to choose a mere ten seems to be a choice too difficult to make.  Society may hold women back but these writers are equal to the challenge and overcome its boundaries with superbly written stories that are a beacon for all others who follow.

In this compilation – 

1 – The Top Ten – 19th Century American women

2 – Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

3 – The Peterkins Decide to Learn the Languages by Lucretia Peabody Hale

4 – A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett

5 – Souls Belated by Edith Wharton

6 – Carnivorine by Lucy Hamilton Hooper

7 – A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman

8 – The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

9 – Désirée s Baby by Kate Chopin

10 – From the Dead by Edith Nesbit

11 – The Shape of Fear by Eliw W Peattie