James Stephens 
Here Are Ladies (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

Stephens’s first (1913) collection of short stories revolves about the often nameless clerks, typists, and office supervisors of middle-class Dublin. The 19 stories include “Women, ” “Three Heavy Husbands, ” “A Glass of Beer, ” “One and One, ” “Three Women Who Wept, ” “The Triangle, ” The Daisies, ” “Three Angry People, ” “The Threepenny Piece, ” and “Brigid.”

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