A fascinating anthology of poetry and prose by leading feminist writers of the 20th century on the topic of women’s freedom and the idea of the ’New Woman’. This international collection offers over 20 literary gems by favourite and newly rediscovered women writers.

Selected and introduced by Gabi Reigh who gives context to the selected contributions from women writers who were expressing their hopes for freedom and autonomy during the early part of the twentieth century.

Includes stories and poems by well-known authors writing in English such as Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, and Katherine Mansfield as well as many new translations of international women’s writing from the same period. These include writers such as Antonia Pozzi, Maria Messina, Fani Popova Mutafova, Magda Isanos, Gabriela Mistral, Carmen de Burgos, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, May Ziadeh, Yenta Serdatzky and others.

List of authors and works included:

A Woman by Fani Popova-Mutafova (translated by Petya Pavlova)

Thoughts by Myra Viola Wilds

The Little Governess by Katherine Mansfield

Villa Myosotis by Sorana Gurian (translated by Gabi Reigh)

The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf

Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself [extract] by Radclyffe Hall

I sit and sew by Alice Dunbar Nelson

First Steps [extract] by Dorka Talmon (translated by Mira Glover)

Coming Home by Maria Messina (translated by Juliette Neil)

Vegetal Reverie by Magda Isanos (translated by Gabi Reigh)

The Iceberg by Zelda Fitzgerald

The Russian Princess by Carmen de Burgos (translated by Slava Faybysh)

Bring to Me All... by Marina Tsvetaeva (translated by Nina Kossman)

Autres Temps by Edith Wharton

Unheard by Yente Serdatsky (translated by Dalia Wolfson)

Fog by Gabriela Mistral (translated by Stuart Cooke)

Natalia [extract] by Fausta Cialente (translated by Laura Shanahan)

What makes this century worse? by Anna Akhmatova (translated by Olga Livshin)

Broken by Nataliya Kobrynska (translated by Hanna Leliv & Slava Faybysh)

Sunset by Antonia Pozzi (translated by Sonia di Placido)

Once Upon A Time by Ling Shuhua (translated by Leilei Chen)

Their Religions and our Marriages: Herland [extract] by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Goodbye Lebanon by May Ziadeh (translated by Rose DeMaris)