“This collection, which includes eight short stories by Czech women writers of the Fin de Siècle era, is important not only because it presents some writers for the first time in English translation, but also because it offers insight into Czech cultural history.”
– Hana Píchová, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Imagine a Czech-speaking Edith Wharton coolly sketching the social and economic hierarchies of a village or examining the social mores relating to women as mothers, lovers, arbitrators of morality, and victims of its callous laws. Imagine Doris Lessing placing her fantastical tales of desire between women in a magnificent, enchanted villa in Prague, or the essay 'A Room of One’s Own' penned by a Moravian Virginia Woolf. The eight stories collected here were written by women you have probably never heard of, but with whom you will continue to speak for a very long time."
Marcela Sulak, Bar-Ilan University