Daughters Of Decadence

At the turn of the century, short stories by -and often about- ‘New Women’ flooded the pages of English and American magazines. This daring new fiction, often innovative in form, and courageous in its candid literary aspiration, shocked Victorian critics who parodied the experimental stories as symptoms of fin de siecle decadence, or denounced the authors as ‘literary degenerates’ or ‘erotomaniacs’.

This collection brings together twenty of the most original and important stories, inc…