Editing Short story (section)

=== 1850–1900 ===
In the latter half of the 19th century, the growth of print magazines and journals created a strong demand for short fiction of between 3,000 and 15,000 words. In 1890s Britain, literary periodicals such as ''[[The Yellow Book]]'', ''[[Black & White (magazine)|Black & White]],'' and ''[[The Strand Magazine]]'' popularized the short story.<ref>Winnie Chan ''The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s'', Introduction, Routledge 2007</ref> Britain was not alone in the endeavor to strengthen the short story movement. French author [[Guy de Maupassant]] composed the short stories "''[[Boule de Suif]]''" ("Ball of Fat", 1880) and "''L'Inutile Beauté''" ("The Useless Beauty", 1890), which are important examples of French [[Literary realism|realism]]. Russian author [[Anton Chekhov]] was also influential in the movement.{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in India, many writers created short stories centered on daily life and the social scene of the different socioeconomic groups. [[Rabindranath Tagore]] published more than 150 short stories on the lives of the poor and oppressed such as peasants, women, and villagers under colonial misrule and exploitation. [[Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay]], Tagore's contemporary, was another pioneer in Bengali short stories. Chattopadhyay's stories focused on the social scenario of rural Bengal and the lives of common people, especially the oppressed classes. The prolific Indian author of short stories [[Munshi Premchand]], pioneered the genre in the [[Hindustani language]], writing over 200 short stories and many novels in a style characterized by realism and an unsentimental and authentic introspection into the complexities of Indian society.

In 1884, [[Brander Matthews]], the first American professor of dramatic literature, published ''The Philosophy of the Short-Story''. During that same year, Matthews was the first one to name the emerging genre "short story".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brander Matthews {{!}} American writer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Brander-Matthews |access-date=2022-08-27 |website=Britannica |language=en}}</ref> Another theorist of [[narrative]] [[fiction]] was [[Henry James]], who produced some of the most influential short narratives of the time.

The spread of the short story movement continued into South America, specifically Brazil. The novelist [[Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis|Machado de Assis]] was an important short story writer from Brazil at the time, under the influences of [[Xavier de Maistre]], [[Laurence Sterne]], [[Guy de Maupassant]], among others.{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}} At the end of the 19th century, the writer [[João do Rio]] became popular by short stories about the [[bohemianism]].  [[Lima Barreto]] wrote about the former slaves and [[nationalism]] in Brazil, with his most recognized work being ''[[Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Britannica Academic |url=https://academic.eb.com/?target=%2Flevels%2Fcollegiate%2Farticle%2F48277 |access-date=2022-12-23 |website=academic.eb.com}}</ref>

Examples include:

* [[India]]
**[[Rabindranath Tagore]]
***"The Kabuliwala"
***"The Hungry Stone"
***"The Wife's Letter"
***"The Parrot's Training"
***"Punishment"
**[[Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay]]
***"Bindu's Son"
***"Abhagi's Heaven"
***"Mahesh"
***"Ram's Good Lesson"
***"Lalu" (3 parts)
***"The Husband"
**[[Premchand]]
***"The Shroud"
***"The Cost of Milk"
***"Lottery"
*[[Poland]]
** [[Bolesław Prus]]
*** "[[A Legend of Old Egypt]]" (1888)
** [[Eliza Orzeszkowa]]
***"Panna Antonina" (1888)
***"W zimowy wieczór" (1888) 
** [[Henryk Sienkiewicz]]
***"The Lighthouse keeper" (1881)
***"Charcoal Sketches" (1877)
*[[Portugal]]
**[[Almeida Garrett]]
**[[Alexandre Herculano]]
**[[Eça de Queiroz]]
*[[Russia]]
** [[Ivan Turgenev]]
*** ''[[A Sportsman's Sketches]]''
** [[Fyodor Dostoyevski]]
*** "[[A Gentle Creature|The Meek One]]" (1876)
*** "[[The Dream of a Ridiculous Man]]" (1877)
** [[Leo Tolstoy]]
*** "[[Ivan the Fool (story)|Ivan the Fool]]" (1885)
*** "[[How Much Land Does a Man Need?]]" (1886)
*** "[[Alyosha the Pot]]" (1905)
** [[Anton Chekhov]]
*** "[[The Bet (short story)|The Bet]]" (1889)
*** "Ward No. 6" (1892)
*** "[[The Lady with the Dog]]" (1899)
** [[Maxim Gorky]]
*** "[[Twenty-six Men and a Girl]]" (1899)
* [[United Kingdom]]
** [[Thomas Hardy]]
*** "[[The Three Strangers]]" (1883),
*** "[[A Mere Interlude]]" (1885),
*** "[[Barbara of the House of Grebe]]" (1890)
** [[Rudyard Kipling]]
*** ''[[Plain Tales from the Hills]]'' (1888)
*** ''[[The Jungle Book]]'' (1894)
** [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]
*** ''[[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]] (1892)-'' [[Detective fiction|detective story]]
** [[H.G. Wells]]- [[Science fiction]]
*** "[[The Country of the Blind]]" (1904)
* [[United States]]
** [[Herman Melville]]
*** ''[[The Piazza Tales]]'' (1856)
** [[Mark Twain]]
*** "[[The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County]]"
** [[Henry James]]
*** "[[The Real Thing (story)|The Real Thing]]" (1892)
*** "Maud-Evelyn"
*** ''[[The Beast in the Jungle]]'' (1903)
**[[Kate Chopin]]
**[[Stephen Crane]]