Stories
The book consisted of 9 stories:
- "Judith" aka "The Naughty Niece"
- "Iris" aka "The Old Routine"
- "Lida" aka "The Foolish Frail"
- "Jeannine" aka "The Lovely Sinner"
- "Lucia" aka "The Homecoming of Amadeo Urselli"
- "Teresa" aka "The Uncertain Widow"
- "Luella" aka "The Saint and the Double Badger"
- "Emily" aka "The Doodlebug"
- "Dawn" aka "The Darker Drink"
Early editions of the book use only the single female names for the titles of the different stories. Several stories were novelisations of radio show episodes.
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“Though Margery is stricken dumb
If thrown in Madge’s way,
We three make up a solitude;
For none alive to-day
Can know the stories that we know
Or say the things we say....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“No record ... can ... name the women of talent who were so submerged by child- bearing and its duties, and by “general housework,” that they had to leave their poems and stories all unwritten.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)
“Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)