Woman in a Lampshade

Woman in a Lamp Shade is a 1983 collection of short stories by Australian writer Elizabeth Jolley.[1][2][3][4] The collection contains the following stories:[4]

• "Pear Tree Dance"
• "Adam's Bride" (formerly titled "The Bench") from Meanjin, 1979
• "Hilda's Wedding" from Looselicks, 1976
• "Two Men Running" from The Bulletin, 1981
• "Uncle Bernard's Proposal" from Landfall, 1973
• "Paper Children"
• "The Play Reading"from Australian Good Housekeeping, 1981
• "The Libation"
• "One Christmas Knitting" from Memories of Childhood edited by Lee White, 1978
• "Butter Butter Butter for a Boat"
• "Woman in a Lampshade" from Westerly, 1979
• "Wednesdays and Fridays" from Quadrant, 1981
• "Dingle the Fool" from Quadrant, 1972
• "The Representative"
• "Clever and Pretty"
• "The Shed" from New Country edited by Bruce Bennett, 1976
• "The Last Crop"

First edition (publ. Penguin Books)