Charting a world transformed by social, literary, sexual, and cultural upheaval, an anthology of short fiction looks at society through the eyes of women as they confront new choices in marriage, motherhood, love, and work, in tales by Oscar Wilde, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Thomas Hardy, and other notable authors, as well as biographies of the authors, a detailed chronology of social and literary history, and more. Original A collection of stories, which examine society through the eyes of the woman, as she encountered choices in marriage, motherhood, work and love. It tells the stories of competing voices - of the men and women who entered into the fray of the fin de siecle, and were not afraid to confront, challenge or delight in the irrepressible New. Acknowledgements ix Chronology xi Introduction xxxi Notes lxxiii Further Reading lxxxii Note on the Texts lxxxix The Sphinx without a Secret (1888) 3(6) Oscar Wilde The Buddhist Priest's Wife (written 1892) 9(12) Olive Schreiner The Yellow Drawing Room (1892) 21(10) Mona Caird The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) 31(17) Charlotte Perkins gilman A Cross Line (1893) 48(19) George Egerton Desiree's Baby (1893) 67(6) Kate Chopin Borgia Smudgiton (Owen Seaman), She-Notes (1894) 73(5) An Imaginative Woman (1894) 78(25) Thomas Hardy Virgin Soil (1894) 103(12) George Egerton The Undefinable (1894) 115(22) Sarah Grand The Story of an Hour (1894) 137(3) Kate Chopin The Pleasure-Pilgrim (1895) 140(28) Ella D'arcy Tommy, the Unsentimental (1896) 168(9) Willa Cather A Woman in Grey (1896) 177(4) Alice Meynell Ellen (1896) 181(6) Rudolph Dircks A Nocturne (1897) 187(10) George Egerton Miss McEnders (1897) 197(9) Kate Chopin A Pair of Silk Stockings (1897) 206(5) Kate Chopin The Stir Outside the Cafe Royal (1898) 211(6) Clarence Rook When the Door Opened---(1898) 217(8) Sarah Grand The Storm (1898) 225(6) Kate Chopin A New Sensation (1899) 231(13) Sarah Grand An Egyptian Cigarette (1900) 244(4) Kate Chopin Talma Gordon (1900) 248(16) Pauline Hopkins A Daughter of the Lodge (1901) 264(12) George Gissing Zitkala-Sa, A Warrior's Daughter (1902) 276(9) The Wedding Feast (1903) 285(11) George Moore The Reckoning (1904) 296(22) Edith Wharton Phyllis and Rosamond (1906) 318(14) Virginia Woolf Leves Amores (1907) 332(2) Katherine Mansfield The Tiredness Of Rosabel (1908) 334(6) Katherine Mansfield Filling the War Chest (1910) 340(6) Evelyn Sharp The Game that wasn't Cricket (1910) 346(3) Evelyn Sharp Turned (1911) 349(10) Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Advanced Lady (1911) 359(9) Katherine Mansfield George Lloyd (1913) 368(4) Gertrude Colmore The Woman in the Corner (1913) 372(3) Gertrude Colmore Jimmy's Afternoon (1913) 375(5) Mary Samuel Daniel The Schartz-Metterklume Method (1914) 380(6) Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) If I were a Man (1914) 386(7) Charlotte Perkins Gilman Appendix 1. In Search of a Subject (1928) 393(5) Sarah Grand Appendix 2. Why I wrote `The Yellow Wallpaper'? (1913) 398(2) Charlotte Perkins Gilman Notes 400(23) Glossary 423(5) Biographical Notes 428