Such Devoted Sisters Author:Shena Mackay (Editor) Short stories by Louisa May Alcott, Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame, Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edna O'Brien, and other writers explore the joys and sorrows, triumphs and tragedies, power and weaknesses, of sisterhood. — Introduction -- — In the zoo / Jean Stafford -- — The connor girls / Edna O'Brien -- — White places / Mary Flanaga... more »n --
The quality of mercy / Sylvia Townsend Warner --
A game of pretend / Marilyn Duckworth --
Aunty / Bani Basu --
Keel and Kool / Janet Frame --
Incantations / Anjana Appachana --
Sorority / Nann Morgenstern --
My sister's marriage / Cynthia Rich --
Five acre virgin / Elizabeth Jolley --
My sister Cherish / Merle Collins --
The sisters hood / Fiona Sheldon --
from Little women and good wives / Louisa May Alcott --
Hand-me-downs / Wajida Tabassum --
from Cranford / Elizabeth Gaskell --
Tales from the spare room / Georgina Hammick --
Habit / Marjorie Barnard --
The daughters of the late colonel / Katherine Mansfield --