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Editor's Note
Oct 01, 2008; ... This issue of Legacy celebrates the occasion of the third International Conference of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, held November 8-11, 2006. Herein, we print nine essays based on papers that were delivered at the conference, with an introduction prepared by SSAWW ...
Writing in the Real World
Oct 01, 2008; ... When Hillary Clinton encountered a heckler's sign, "Iron My Shirt," at a January 2008 campaign rally, she could easily have responded with Anne Bradstreet's complaint from 350 years ago: "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue / Who says my hand a needle better fits" (25-26). Substitute "iron" ...
Zitkala-Sa, The Song of Hiawatha, and the Carlisle Indian School Band: A Captivity Tale
Oct 01, 2008; ... In early 1900, Richard Henry Pratt, superintendent of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, invited Zitkala-Sa to travel as a violin soloist with the Carlisle Indian School Band on their tour of the northeastern United States. He also asked her to recite a scene from Henry ...
A Late Night Vindication: Annis Boudinot Stockton's Reading of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Oct 01, 2008; ... Annis Boudinot Stockton, an elite early American poet and patriot, ends a letter to her daughter with a declaration: I am frightened at the length of my letter-and more when I look at the watch and see the hour of the night-it is past one oclock, and not a creature upon in the house but ...
Reading Published Letter Collections as Literary Texts: Maria Chabot-Georgia O'Keeffe Correspondence, 1941-1949 as a Case Study
Oct 01, 2008; ... "I had to tell you."1 "I must tell you" (454). The sense of urgency, the desire for a witness - and a recipient - of intense feeling, permeates the letters between Maria Chabot and Georgia O'Keeffe that are now collected in a single, edited volume, published by University of New Mexico Press in ...
Writing at the Crossroads: Sophia Hawthorne's Civil War Letters to Annie Fields
Oct 01, 2008; ... If the Civil War was, as Shelby Foote suggested . . . , the "crossroads of our being," how did women imagine that crossroads? (6) Lyde Cullen Sizer, 77te Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 Sophia Peabody Hawthorne met Annie Adams Fields for the ...
Forwarding Literary Interests: James Redpath and the Authorial Careers of Marion Harland, Louisa May Alcott, and Sherwood Bonner
Oct 01, 2008; ... SUSAN S. WILLIAMS Ohio State University, Columbus In 1854, Marion Harland (Mary Virginia Terhune) received a fan letter at her home in Richmond, Virginia, from James Redpath, a New York journalist whom she had never met. Redpath had just read her first novel, Alone, and was ...
A Forgotten Daughter of Bohemia: Gertrude Christian Fosdick's Out of Bohemia and the Artists' Novel of the 1890s
Oct 01, 2008; ... In October 1859, George William Curtis, editor of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, attempted to define for his readers the concept of Bohemia. Alluding to both the freedom that Bohemia embodied and anxiety about the threat it posed to bourgeois life, he pronounced that "Bohemia is the realm of ...
The Motherless Child in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood
Oct 01, 2008; ... [T]he desire of the mother is the origin of everything (283). Jacques Lacan, "Antigone Between Two Deaths," 1960. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, A long ways from ...
Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America/Traveling Economies: American Women's Travel Writing
Oct 01, 2008; ... Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America. By Susan Clair Imbarrato. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. 254 pp. $42.95. Traveling Economies: American Women's Travel Writing. By Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007. 208 pp ....
Delinquent Housekeeping: Transforming the Regulations of Keeping House
Oct 01, 2008; ... Sarah Orne Jewett's Deephaven and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping portray the quiet lives of rural women involved in the daily matters of keeping house. The trope of the ship punctuates these scenes of domesticity, and through this image Jewett and Robinson question, subvert, and revise ...
Is Women's Poetry Passé? A Call for Conversation
Oct 01, 2008; ... In the January 2006 issue of Poetry, three women writers assert, "[W]e all concur that we ought to abolish the unpleasant term 'women's poetry'" (322). The poets who made this conclusion are Meghan O'Rourke, an editor for Slate and the Paris Review and author of Halflife; J. Allyn Rosser, whose ...
"Good Observers of Nature": American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820-1885
Oct 01, 2008; ... "Good Observers of Nature": American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820-1885. By Tina Gianquitto. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. 216 pp. $59.95/$19.95 paper. The year 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, yet ...
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Volume I, 1809-1847/The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism/Reinventing the Peabody Sisters
Oct 01, 2008; ... Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Volume 1, 1809-1847. By Patricia Dunlavy Valenti. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. 320 pp./18 illus. $44.95. The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism. By Megan Marshall. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 624 pp./57 ...
Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America
Oct 01, 2008; ... Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America. By Angela Vietto. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006. 147 pp. $89.95. As Angela Vietto's slim yet thorough study of women writers of the American revolutionary period demonstrates, women historically have not enjoyed the same ...
Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture
Oct 01, 2008; ... Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture. Edited by Denise Kohn, Sarah Meer, and Emily B. Todd. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. 302 pp. $39.95. When discussing Harriet Beecher Stowe these days, scholars often begin by marveling how much the field of ...
Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing and Region
Oct 01, 2008; ... Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing and Region. Edited by JerriAnne Boggis, Eve Allegra Raimon, and Barbara A. White. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2007. 244 pp. $65.oo/$26.oo paper. Co-edited by scholars and New England community activists, this anthol- ogy of ...
Daughter of the Revolution: The Major Nonfiction Works of Pauline E. Hopkins
Oct 01, 2008; ... Daughter of the Revolution: The Major Nonfiction Works of Pauline E. Hopkins. Edited and with an introduction by Ira Dworkin. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. 406 pp. $70.00 cloth/$34.95 paper. Ira Dworkin has given us a useful compilation of the prolific prose of late ...
Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture
Oct 01, 2008; ... Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture. Edited by Gary Totten. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. 408 pp. $65.00/$34.95 paper. Gary Totten's edited collection, Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors, presents a set of narratives and contexts ...
Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870-1920
Oct 01, 2008; ... Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870-1920. By Leslie Petty. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. 240 pp. $39.95. While anti-slavery and temperance fiction have been recognized as distinct traditions in American reform literature, feminist activism within ...