Name That Writer!

Who wrote this sentence about the work of what writer?

"These thirty little stories will seem overly playful to people with a practical bent and to women with strongly charitable inclinations."

For another clue, here’s the next sentence:

"These people will accuse the stories of lacking character, of being quirky, of flirting with life, perhaps even of being heartless and of letting themselves be impressed by the bewildering determination with which insignificant things, say a bench in the garden, fill out their place in the world."

For a final clue, here’s a sentence from a story by the writer whose work is being described:

"I tremble less at the whims and oddities of others than at my own which lead me to a house, whose appearance I know not whether to describe or leave undepicted."