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. Mayor

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 / Sylvia 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.