Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories by Angela Carter, Rocky Gamez, Suniti Namjoshi, Jane Bowles, Bessie Head, Frances Towers, Leonora Carrington, Djuna Barnes, Luo Shu, Colette, Grace Paley, Elizabeth Jolley, Vernon Lee, Andrée Chedid, Ama Ata Aidoo, Jamaica Kincaid, Katherine Mansfield, George Egerton

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Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories

Angela Carter, Rocky Gamez, Suniti Namjoshi, Jane Bowles, Bessie Head, Frances Towers, Leonora Carrington, Djuna Barnes, Luo Shu, Colette, Grace Paley, Elizabeth Jolley, Vernon Lee, Andrée Chedid, Ama Ata Aidoo, Jamaica Kincaid, Katherine Mansfield, George Egerton

352 pages • paperback • first pub 1986 • 14 editions

fiction short stories adventurous dark medium-paced

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This collection of stories, about bad girls and wicked women, extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners. The authors featured include Ama Ata Aidoo, Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Colette, Bessie Head, Katherine Ma...