No. 16 in the Canadian Short Story Library.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Aspiring Women is an anthology of short fiction written by Canadian women between 1880 and 1900. It includes stories by Sara Jeannette Duncan, Margaret Marshall Saunders, and E. Pauline Johnson. Written during a period when both the short story form and the situation of women were evolving, the stories demonstrate the authors' creativity in expressing the realities and tensions of the changing female role." (Publisher's Website)

CONTENTS:

[1.] How the modern Eve entered Eden / Ethelwyn Wetherald

[2.] Up the sittee in a pitpan / Sara Jeannette Duncan

[3.] Extradited / Isabella Valancy Crawford

[4.] Crowded out! ; The story of Delle Josephine Boulanger / Susan Frances Harrison

[5.] Parted ways / Agnes Maule Machar

[6.] Mr. Gray's strange story / Louisa Murray

[7.] A red girl's reasoning / E. Pauline Johnson

[8.] How it looked at home : a story of '85 / Annie Fowler Rothwell

[9.] Thrift / Lily Dougall

[10.] A dangerous experiment / Maud Ogilvy

[11.] An episode at Clarke's Crossing / Catherine E. Simpson Hayes

[12.] The ill effects of a morning walk / Sarah Anne Curzon

[13.] A mother / Joanna Wood

[14.] Poor Jersey City / Margaret Marshall Saunders

[15.] The widowed stranger / Ella S. Atkinson

[16.] Love me, love my dog / Jessie Kerr Lawson

[17.] Koot and the bob-cat / Agnes Laut

[18.] Nan : a tale of crossing the plains to California in the Rush of '49 / Frances Elizabeth Herring