Publisher's Synopsis
A unique collection of short stories by American women writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather, edited by Elaine Showalter. Chosen by one of America's most eminent scholars, SCRIBBLING WOMEN collects together theshort stories of the great American women writers of the nineteenth century in a "rich and splendid anthology [which] pulls us right into modern women's literature" The Tribune Magazine