Table of Contents: “…Winifred Wedgwood -- Catherine Durning Whetham -- Lucy Whitmell -- Margaret Adelaide Wilson -- Margorie Wilson.…”

Table of Contents: “…; Eskimo occasion / Judith Rodriguez -- Baby-sitting / Gillian Clarke -- Game after supper ; Habitation ; Woman skating ; Siren song / Margaret Atwood -- Sea things ; You cannot do this ; The virgin warrior / Gwendolain MacEwan -- Swineherd ; Letter to Pearse Hutchinson / Eléan ni Chuilleanáin -- Instructions to the double ; Black silk ; Each bird walking / Tess Gallagher -- For Jane Myers ; Gratitude ; The undertaking ; Descending figure ; dedication to hunger ; The gift / Louise Glück -- 1943 ; Children / Sandra McPherson -- Why she says no / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- An Easter garland ; Geography lesson / Carol Rumens -- The famine road / Eavan Boland -- Depression ; A policeman's lot ; Waste land limericks / Wendy Cope -- Below Hekla ; A voice in the garden / Selima Hill.…”

Table of Contents: “…Katherine Philips -- Aphra Benn -- Mary Mollineux -- Jane Barker -- Anne Killigrew -- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -- Elizabeth Singer Rowe -- Elizabeth Thomas -- Mary Masters -- Elizabeth Teft -- Charlotte MacCarthy -- Susanna Highmore Duncombe -- Charlotte Lennox -- Anna Seward -- Elizabeth Hands -- Anne Grant -- Sarah Ponsonby -- Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire -- Eliza Cobbe, Lady Tuite -- Eliza Robertson -- Margaretta Faugeres -- Elizabeth Moody -- Dorothy Wordsworth -- Mary Matilda Betham -- Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan -- Mary Russell Mitford -- Dorothea Primrose Campbell -- Caroline Clive -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Frances Kemble -- Margaret Fuller -- Frances Osgood -- Isa Blagden -- Emily Brontë -- Alice Cary -- Dora Greenwell -- Bessie Rayner Parkes -- Christina Rossetti -- Emily Dickinson -- Helen Hunt Jackson -- Annie Fields -- Adah Isaacs Menken -- Mathilde Blind -- Rosa Mulholland, Lady Gilbert -- Violet Fane…”

Table of Contents: “…Father's Day 1991 -- Margaret Walker, 1915-. Molly Means 1942. Lineage 1942. …”

Table of Contents: “…Cowdery -- Portraiture / Anita Scott Coleman -- Locust trees / Margaret L. Thomas -- Solace / Clarissa Scott Delany -- Substitution -- [God never planted a garden] -- Creed / Anne Spencer -- [Night is like an avalanche] -- [Skylines] / Bessie Mayle -- Mattinate -- Memory -- Wild roses -- Sassafras tea / Effie Lee Newsome -- After reading Bryant's line to a waterfowl / Eloise Bibb Thompson -- The river / Ethel M. …”