Writing to delight: Italian short stories by nineteenth-century women writers

Introduction: Scenes from nineteenth-century Italy: delightful stories on those long, long, winter evenings / Gabriella Romani

Checchina's virtue / Matilde Serao

Paolina ; Aunt Severina ; The lady of the evening / Neera

Winter evenings ; Learn a trade for a rainy day ; Dear hope / Marchesa Colombi

The bread of the departed ; The caning / Caterina Percoto

The coral necklace / Contessa Lara

Woes of the middle class / Virginia Olper Monis

Scorn for life / Bruno Sperani

Afterword: Ladies, chickens, and queens: the stron voices of Italian women writers / Antonia Arslan.