Women and Fiction
First sentence
Kate Chopin was born Katherine O'Flaherty in St. Louis; her father was a prosperous emigrant from County Galway and her mother was of French descent...
Description
Contains: [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