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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Dedication
Introduction
Chapter 1: Romancing the Past
“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter
Evening by Susan Minot
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton
“Tell Me a Riddle” by Tillie Olsen
Love, Again by Doris Lessing
Not That Sort of Girl by Mary Wesley
Chapter 2: Sex after Sixty
The Waiting Game by Bernice Rubens
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
“My Man Bovanne” by Toni Cade Bambara
Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray
“The Liar’s Wife” by Mary Gordon
“Dolly” by Alice Munro
Chapter 3: Altered Realities
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
The Girls by Helen Yglesias
Missing by Michelle Herman
As We Are Now by May Sarton
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
Chapter 4: It’s Never Too Late
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
Spiderweb by Penelope Lively
Visitors by Anita Brookner
Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos
Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson
Chapter 5: Defying Expectations
They May Not Mean To, But They Do by Cathleen Schine
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman by Sena Jeter Naslund
The Love Ceiling by Jean Davies Okimoto
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
Conclusion: Margaret Drabble’s The Dark Flood Rises
Postscript
Acknowledgments
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