A collection of 13 stories representing the work of an elite group of 19th and early 20th century women writers.

Rebecca Harding Davis -- Life in the Iron-Mills / Louisa May Alcott -- Trancendental Wild Oats / Sarah Orne Jewett -- A White Heron / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- A New England Nun / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wall-Paper / Kate Chopin -- The Storm / Edith Wharton -- The Angel at the Grave / Willa Cather -- Paul's Case / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- The Stones of the Village / Susan Glaspell -- A Jury of Her Peers / Djuana Barnes -- Smoke / Zora Neale Hurston -- Sweat / Nella Larsen -- Sanctuary.