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
By Winifred Kirkland ———
THE JOYS OF BEING A WOMAN. THE OLD DILLER PLACE. Illustrated. THE BOY-EDITOR. Illustrated. THE HOME-COMERS. Illustrated.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Boston and New York
The Joys of Being a Woman
BY WINIFRED KIRKLAND colophon BOSTON & NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1918
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY WINIFRED KIRKLAND ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published August 1918