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 Women2 - The Indian Orphan by Letitia Elizabeth Landon3 - The Mourner by Mary Shelley4 - Napolean and the Spectre by Charlotte Bronte5 - The Lifted Veil by George Eliot6 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards7 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy 8 - A Story of a Wedding Tour by Margaret Oliphant9 - Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy10 - Passed by Charlotte Mew11 - The Old Nurses Story by Elizabeth Gaskell