The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women
The Peguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women is a compilation of 32 short stories by Canadian women selected and edited by the Chinese-Canadian author Denise Chong. It was published in 1997 by Penguin Books in Toronto.
In her Introduction to this compilation, Chong notes that she "wasn't looking so much for a feminine voice in the short story form, but rather stories in which women figure as central characters, where their points of view dominate". [1]
The authors and the titles of their included stories are:
- Cynthia Flood, "The Meaning of the Marriage"
- Marian Engel, "Madame Hortensia, Equilibriste"
- Ann Copeland, "Cloister"
- Alice Munro, "Miles City, Montana"
- Barbara Gowdy, "Presbyterian Crosswalk"
- Mavis Gallant, "Voices Lost in Snow"
- Bonnie Burnard, "Crush"
- Sandra Birdsell, "The Midnight Hour"
- Eden Robinson, "Queen of the North"
- Shani Mootoo, "A Garden of Her Own"
- Monique Proulx, "Leah and Paul, for Example"
- Audrey Thomas, "Harry and Violet"
- Hélène Rioux, "Opening Night"
- Margaret Atwood, "Bluebeard's Egg"
- Dionne Brand, "No Rinsed Blue Sky, No Red Flower Fences"
- Diane Schoemperlen, "She Wants to Tell Me"
- Bronwen Wallace, "An Easy Life"
- Linda Svendsen, "White Shoulders"
- Holley Rubinsky, "Rapid Transits"
- Katherine Govier, "Home for Good"
- Elisabeth Harvor, "How Will I Know You?"
- Joyce Marshall, "Blood & Bone"
- Jane Rule, "Lilian"
- Ethel Wilson, "Till Death Us Do Part"
- Isabel Huggan, "Secrets"
- Frances Itani, "Marx & Co."
- Shirley Faessler, "Lucy & Minnie"
- Sharon Butala, "Act of Love"
- Margaret Gibson, "The House that Stan and Rosie Built"
- Dorothy Speak, "Stroke"
- Carol Shields, "Hazel"
- Jane Urquhart, "Storm Glass"
References[edit]
- ↑ Chong, Denise, ed. The Penguin Anthology of Stories of Canadian Women. Toronto: Penguin Books, 1997, p. xii-xiii
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