The Oxford book of modern women's stories

Introduction

Paul's case / Willa Cather

Afterward / Edith Wharton

Hear the nightingale sing / Caroline Gordon

Je ne parle pas francais / Katherine Mansfield

Miss de Mannering of Asham / F.M. Mator

That tree / Katherine Anne Porter

Look at all those roses / Elizabeth Bowen

In a winter landscape / Olivia Manning

The legacy / Virginia Woolf

First love / Eudora Welty

Is there a life beyond the gravy? / Stevie Smith

Yonder peasant, who is he? / Mary McCarthy

Which new era would that be? / Nadine Gordimer

The day Mr Prescott died / Sylvia Plath

The day Stalin died / Doris Lessing

The blush / Elizabeth Taylor

An interest in life / Grace Paley

UNO 1945 / Christina Stead

The rehabilitation of Ginevra Leake / Hortense Calisher

The tea time of stouthearted ladies / Jean Stafford

The house of the famous poet / Muriel Spark

Good country people / Flannery O'Connor

Heathy landscape with dormouse / Ylvia Townsend Warner

Irish revel / Edna O'Brien

The butterfly and the traffic light / Cynthia Ozick

Scenes of passion and despair / Joyce Carol Oates

Something to tell the girls / Jane Gardam

A star and two girls / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Overture and beginners please / Jean Rhys

Hair Jewellery / Margaret Atwood

Puss-in-boots / Angela Carter

The terrors of basket weaving / Patricia Highsmith

The play reading / Elizabeth Jolley

In the Great War / Fay Weldon

Victory over Japan / Ellen Gilchrist

On the day that E.M. Forster died / A.S. Byatt

A wife's story / Bharati Mukherjee

A pair of tickets / Amy Tan

Meneseteung / Alice Munro

The prophecy / Anjana Appachana.