Forebears

     Stories from the British empire 1850 to 1930

   edited by Glenys Acland and Ken Watson

Forebears follows on from Cousins (2008). It includes short stories from writers in countries of what was then the British Empire, from 1850 to 1930 - a period in which the short story developed as a recognizable form. 

 The writers, from  England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and India, include

Wilkie Collins (1824-89)        - A Terribly Strange Bed  (1852)

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)  -  The Signal Man (1866)

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)  - The Nightingale and the Rose (1888??)

Price Warung (1855-1911)  - Lieutenant Darrell's Predicament (1892)

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) – The Speckled Band (1892)

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)– A Matter of Fact  (1892)

Henry Lawson (1867-1923) -  The Drover's Wife (1892)

E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913)  -  A Red Girl's Reasoning  (1893)

H.G. Wells (1886-1946)-    The Red Room  (1894)

Saki (H.H. Munro) (1870-1916)  –    The Background (1910??)

Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) – Maddened by Mystery (1911)

G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)  -  The Absence of Mr Glass (1912)

William J. Locke (1863-1930) – The Adventure of the Kind Mr Smith (1912)

James Joyce (1882-1941)   - Araby  (1914)

Rabindranath Tagore (1861- 1941)  - The Postman (1918)

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) – Miss Brill (1922)

Alan Sullivan (1868-1947)     -  Trade (1926?)

D.H. Lawrence( 1885-1930) -  The Rocking-horse Winner  (1926)

W. Somerset Maugham (1886-1952)  - The Verger (1929)

  Also available is Forebears Teacher's Resource Book, by Owen Belling and Peter Kneale. It includes:

·     Activities on  groups of stories

·     Notes and Activities on individual stories

·     Activities applicable to a range of stories

·      Notes on the authors

·      Some background notes on the literature of the Commonwealth

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