Contains: Mrs. Washington Potts / Eliza Leslie The intemperate / Lydia Sigourney The quadroons / Lydia Maria Child The seamstress / Harriet Beecher Stowe Fanny McDermot / Catharine Maria Sedgwick The angel over the right shoulder / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Uncle Christopher's / Alice Cary In a cellar / Harriet Prescott Spofford Life in the iron mills / Rebecca Harding Davis Lemorne versus Huell / Elizabeth Drew Stoddard The brothers / Louisa May Alcott Transcendental wild oats / Louisa May Alcott How I went out to service / Louisa May Alcott In the Gray Goth / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Ward) A mistaken charity / Mary Wilkins Freeman The revolt of "mother" / Mary Wilkins Freeman Louisa / Mary Wilkins Freeman Miss Peck's promotion / Sarah Orne Jewett Miss Esther's guest / Sarah Orne Jewett The guests of Mrs. Timms / Sarah Orne Jewett How Celia changed her mind / Rose Terry Cooke The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman Old Mrs. Crosley / Charlotte Perkins Gilman Mrs. Beazley's deeds / Charlotte Perkins Gilman [The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin Madame Célestin's divorce / Kate Chopin [A pair of silk stockings](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078930W) / Kate Chopin The pelican / Edith Wharton The other two / Edith Wharton Xingu / Edith Wharton The soft-hearted Sioux / Zitkala-S̈a (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) Its wavering image / Sui Sin Far Hope deferred / Alice Dunbar-Nelson