附註:Includes bibliographical references.
I. Until Death Do Us Part ... and After: Marriage : The lady's maid's bell / Edith Wharton -- The readjustment / Mary Austin -- The shell of sense / Olivia Howard Dunbar -- Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston -- A legend of Sonora / Hildegarde Hawthorne -- II. The Tie That Binds: Motherhood : The children / Josephine Daskam Bacon -- Broken glass / Georgia Wood Pangborn -- The little gray ghost / Cornelia A.P. Comer -- Hunger / Katharine Holland Brown -- The giant wistaria / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- III. The "Other" Woman: Sexuality : At La Glorieuse / M.E.M. Davis -- The past / Ellen Glasgow -- Secret chambers / Mrs. Wilson Woodrow -- Her letters / Kate Chopin -- IV. Madwomen or Mad Women? The Medicalization of the Female : The second wife / Mary Heaton Vorse -- Her story / Harriett Prescott Spofford -- The gospel / Josephine Daskam Bacon -- Clasy-shuttered doors / Helen R. Hull -- V. Shades of Discontent: Widows and Spinsters : Lois Benson's love story / Anne Page -- A dissatisfied soul / Annie Trumbull Slosson -- Mistress marian's light / Gertrude Morton -- Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.
摘要:Twenty-two ghost tales by known and unknown writers. They range from Harriet Prescott Spofford's Her Story, on a woman sent to a madhouse by an unloving husband, to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Giant Wistaria, written in defense of suicide.
