The Joys of Being a Woman AND OTHER PAPERS

FOREWORD The Ego in the Essay

CONTENTS

I The Joys of Being a Woman

II A Man in the House

III Old-Clothes Sensations

IV Luggage and the Lady

V Detached Thoughts on Boarding

VI The Lady Alone at Night

VII In Sickness and in Health

VIII An Educational Fantasy

IX My Clothes

X The Tendency to Testify

XI Letters and Letter-Writers

XII The Tyranny of Talent

XIII The Woman Who Writes

XIV Picnic Pictures

XV The Farm Feminine

XVI A Little Girl and Her Grandmother

XVII The Wayfaring Woman

XVIII The Road That Talked

XIX My Mother’s Gardeners

XX My Little Town

XXI Genus Clericum

XXII Some Difficulties in Doing without Eternity