Oxford, Don Mills, ON, 1999, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-19-541426-8.  Hard cover, 592 pages including Notes on Authors and Index.  Very good; brick coloured boards with very light corner and spine end wear; tight binding with headbands.  Light stray ink mark on bottom edge; bit of light age spotting on outer block.  Dust jacket shows a bit of edge and cover wear, some scratches and light rubs, short tear at spine head.  Interior clean and unmarked.  ‘Canadian women have made remarkable contributions to world literature over the past hundred and fifty years, especially in the short-story genre. … Together, the fifty stories that Rosemary Sullivan has selected form a kind of collective narrative of women’s experience, past and present.  All are about women:  in childhood, adolescence, maturity, old age; in relationships as daughters, sisters, lovers, mothers; in various social and political contexts.  Their authors reflect the country’s racial and ethnic diversity as well as its geographic expanse, from Newfoundland to BC, and they work in a wide range of styles:  from documentary narrative (Catharine Parr Traill), romance adventure (E. Pauline Johnson), and satiric social comedy (L.M. Montgomery), to science fiction (Susan Swan) and postmodern metafiction (Gail Scott).  Yet all write confidently and eloquently about women’s lives.’ (from front flap)