Status Updates From Miss Grief and Other Stories

Woolson’s female characters openly denounce men’s expectations that women behave simply and adoringly.
[From the introduction by Anne Boyd Rioux.]

These stories are blowing me away.

Rodman the Keeper - an ambivalent depiction of the South after the end of the Civil War, from the viewpoint of a solitary, ex-soldier northerner who maintains the national cemetery near a dilapidated southerner’s home.

Solomon - A touching portrait of a married, poor country couple as seen through the eyes of two citified women, which highlights the impressions we get about others and their relationships and the personal baggage we attach to them.

St. Clair Flats — an excellent portrait of the wilderness and wildness of spirit of the westward expansion in the US