Includes bibliographical references (pages [504]-513).
Cacoethes Scribendi / Catharine Sedgwick -- The angel over the right shoulder / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- The two offers / Frances Harper -- Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford -- Life in the iron mills ; Marcia / Rebecca Harding Davis -- My contraband ; Behind the mask, or, A woman's power / Louisa May Alcott -- A New England nun ; A poetess ; Old woman Magoun ; Sister Liddy / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Miss Grief ; At the château of Corrine / Constance Fenimore Woolson -- A white heron ; The town poor / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The yellow wallpaper ; Turned / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The story of an hour ; The storm / Kate Chopin -- Souls belated / Edith Wharton -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell