19th-century English short story writers
A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood.
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Harriet Martineau
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Harriet Martineau who wrote extensively in the C19th on a wide range of subjects including abolition, and is called the mother of sociology.
8 December 2016
Featuring: Valerie Sanders, Karen O'Brien, Ella Dzelzainis
HistoryVictorian novelists19th-century atheists19th-century English novelistsEnglish travel writersEnglish atheistsEnglish women novelists19th-century English women writersEnglish abolitionistsFeminism and historyEnglish women philosophersWriters from NorwichEnglish writers with disabilities19th-century British economistsEnglish Unitarians19th-century English philosophersBritish women essayistsEnglish suffragistsVictorian women writersBritish scientists with disabilitiesBritish atheism activistsEnglish people of French descentPositivists19th-century English short story writersEnglish historical novelists, 19th-century English historiansRudyard Kipling
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling, a writer sometimes described as the poet of empire.
16 October 2014
Featuring: Howard Booth, Daniel Karlin, Jan Montefiore
CultureBurials at Westminster AbbeyNobel laureates in LiteratureEnglish people of Scottish descent19th-century English poetsEnglish male novelistsVictorian novelists19th-century English novelistsEnglish male short story writers20th-century English poets20th-century English male writers19th-century English non-fiction writersEnglish Nobel laureates20th-century English novelistsFellows of the Royal Society of LiteratureBritish Nobel laureatesMythopoeic writersPeople of the Victorian era19th-century English short story writersMaritime writersEnglish-language poets from India20th-century English memoiristsDeaths from ulcersEnglish children's writersEnglish hymnwritersEnglish science fiction writersFreemasons of the United Grand Lodge of EnglandRectors of the University of St AndrewsEnglish anti-fascists