@booklet {4975, title = {The Mistress of Lilliput}, year = {1999}, month = {1999}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Lemuel Gulliver\’s wife follows him after he leaves her hoping to return to Houyhnhnmland. Other stories from the point-of-view of Mrs. Gulliver are John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel, \“Gulliver at Home.\” In his The Pure Product: Stories (New York: Tor, 1997), 329-43; rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction Fifteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin\’s Press, 1998), 565-75; and in Kessel\’s Rpt. in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 303-316, with a note on the story on 572-573; Karen Joy Fowler\’s \“The Travails.\” In her Black Glass: Short Fiction (New York: Henry Holt, 1998), 84-95 provides letters written by Mrs. Gulliver after Gulliver leaves the second time; and Lauren Chater, Gulliver\’s Wife. Cammeray, NSW, Australia: Simon \& Schuster (Australia), 2020, about the life that Mrs. Gulliver builds for herself after he leaves, and the disruption caused by his return.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Scottish author}, author = {Alison Fell (b. 1944)} }