Major Literary Movement
Late 19th Century: A branch of Realism focused on capturing the distinctive dialect, landscape, customs, and character types of a specific geographic region.
e.g. Sarah Orne Jewett, Bret Harte, Kate Chopin.
I’m pleased to share that Fish O’Baby’s Great Tales will soon feature a new collection of short fiction by Alfred Edgar Coppard, one of the most distinctive and quietly innovative British writers of the early twentieth century. Over the coming weeks, I’ll be posting complete, readable editions of several of Coppard’s stories, many of which […]
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The late 19th and early 20th centuries were an era of profound transformation. Industrial expansion, urbanization, and the rise of new scientific and philosophical ideas reshaped Western life. Yet, amid these advances, women remained confined by the moral strictures of the Victorian Age, expected to embody the ideal of the “Angel in the House”—pure, submissive,