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

1. ↑ Chong, Denise, ed. The Penguin Anthology of Stories of Canadian Women. Toronto: Penguin Books, 1997, p. xii-xiii