ISBN:

• 9780451528278
• 0451528271

Description: 469 pages ; 18 cm

Other Title: Women and fiction

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-469).

Contents:

• 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.

LCCN: 75021588

Control Number: 1235975

Subjects:

• American fiction -- Women authors.
• English fiction -- Women authors.
• Women -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
• Women authors -- Biography.
• Women in literature.

Genre:

• Biographies.
• Short stories.
• Short stories.

Other Authors: Cahill, Susan, 1940-