A collection of short stories by and about women.

The Story of an Hour / Kate Chopin -- The Other Two / Edith Wharton -- A Wagner Matinee / Willa Cather -- The Secret Woman / Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette -- Miss Furr and Miss Skeene / Gertrude Stein -- The New Dress / Virginia Woolf -- The Garden Party / Katherine Mansfield -- Rope / Katherine Anne Porter -- Winter Night / Kay Boyle -- A Worn Path / Eudora Welty -- The Scream on Fifty-Seventh Street / Hortense Calisher -- Like A Winding Sheet / Ann Petry -- In A Cafe / Mary Lavin -- I Stand Here Ironing / Tillie Olsen -- The Eldest Child / Maeve Brennan -- Wunderkind / Carson McCullers -- To Room Nineteen / Doris Lessing -- An Interest in Life / Grace Paley -- Revelation / Flannery O'Connor -- Cousin Lewis / Jean Stubbs -- A Journey / Edna O'Brien -- The Office / Alice Munro -- In A Region Of Ice / Joyce Carol Oates -- The Gifts Of War / Margaret Drabble -- Day-Old Baby Rats / Julie Hayden -- Everyday Use / Alice Walker.