Embracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the work of an elite group of American women writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The earliest stories are Rebecca Harding Davis' naturalistic 'Life in the Iron Mills' and Louisa May Alcott's semiautobiographical tale 'Transcendental Wild Oats'. In between is a cavalcade of superbly crafted fiction by various authors.
