TY - ABST T1 - The Mistress of Lilliput Y1 - 1999 A1 - Alison Fell (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

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

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