Title: Nine Short Novels by American Women
Description: Life in the iron mills / Rebecca Harding Davis --
[The awakening](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL65430W) / Kate Chopin --
Melanctha / Gertrude Stein --
Summer / Edith Wharton --
Quicksand / Nella Larsen --
Pale horse, pale rider / Katherine Anne Porter --
Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen --
Miss Muriel / Ann Petry --
Merle / Paule Marsha ll.
Subjects: Social life and customs, American fiction, Women authors, Women, Fiction, Adultery, American, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Criticism and interpretation, feminist fiction, feminist literature, General, History, Interpersonal attraction, Interpersonal relations, Juvenile fiction, Literary Anthologies, LITERARY CRITICISM, literary fiction, Louisiana Creoles, Man-woman relationships, manners and customs, Marriage, Married people, Married women, Married women in fiction, Modern Literature, Psychological, Psychological fiction, Psychology, Rezeption, Self-actualization (Psychology), Self-actualization (Psychology) in women, Short Stories, Social conditions, Women in fiction, American fiction, women authors
Places: Louisiana, New Orleans, Grand Isle, Chênière Caminada, Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, New York City
People: Edna Pontellier, Léonce Pontellier, Etienne Pontellier, Raoul Pontellier, Madame Aline Lebrun, Robert Lebrun, Victor Lebrun, Mariequita, Adèle Ratignolle, Alphonse Ratignolle, Mademoiselle Reisz, Farival twins, Monsieur Farival, Beaudelet, Madame Antoine, Toni Antoine, Old Celestine, Ellen Joe, Doctor Mandelet, Alcée Arobin, Mrs. Highcamp, James Highcamp, Mrs. Merriman, Miss Mayblunt, Gouvernail, Madame Pontellier
Time periods: 19th century