With the talents on display the most difficult task is choosing only ten. Their virtuosity, their craft and ambition scare belie the difficulties that society places upon most women. Their words cannot be denied, their literary heritage is safe forever.

1 - The Top Ten - 19th Century British Women

2 - The Indian Orphan by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

3 - The Mourner by Mary Shelley

4 - Napoleon and the Spectre by Charlotte Bronte

5 - The Lifted Veil by George Eliot

6 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards

7 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy

8 - A Story of a Wedding Tour

9 - Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy

10 - Passed by Charlotte Mew

11 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell