I Stand Here Ironing
Published in 1956 in Tillie Olsen’s Tell Me a Riddle collection, “I Stand Here Ironing” is probably Olsen’s most famous short story. The story is written as a monologue by an unnamed mother as she reflects on the toll that poverty and abandonment must have taken on the childhood of her nineteen-year old daughter Emily. It portrays the difficulties faced by young mothers as they try to bring up children by themselves.
Call Numbers for Browsing the Shelves
Circulating Books – A Selected List
Call Number: PS3565 .L82 Z65 1995
Call Number: PS3565 .L82 Z613 1998
Call Number: PS3565 .L82 Z64 1993
Call Number: PS3565 .L82 T45 1994
Call Number: PS3565 .L82 Z84 1991
Call Number: PS228 .R34 R63 1996
LINCCWeb online catalog – Search Terms
Reference Materials
o Vol. 13, pg. 432
o Vol. 114, pgs. 192-223, 231-245
o Vol. 5, pg. 1845
o Vol. 11, pgs. 163-164, 166, 171, 177-80, 188, 190, 192-93, 195, 197
o Vol. 103, pgs. 103, 144, 146, 149, 151-53, 160, 190, 195-97, 203-08, 216-16, 225-26, 235-35, 240, 243, 256
o Vol. 1, pgs. 94-107
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