An international anthology of short stories, novellas and extracts from the works of many women novelists and short-story writers of the 20th century. They include Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Bowen, Anita Brookner, Angela Carter, Colette, Anita Desai, Margaret Drabble, Daphne du Maurier, Marguerite Duras, Buchi Emecheta, Zoë Fairbairns, Nadine Gordimer, Georgina Hammick, Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Rosamond Lehmann, Doris Lessing, Olivia Manning, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Munro, Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Kathy Page, Sylvia Plath, Jean Rhys, Françoise Sagan, Ntozake Shange, Elizabeth Smart, Amy Tan, Alice Walker, Fay Weldon, Edith Wharton, Jeanette Winterson, and Virginia Woolf.