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Editor's Note
Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... We have included in this issue one extra essay and one extra Profile. We do this because we have published, and will publish in the future, several special thematic issues. Legacy 24.2 was a special issue, guest-edited by Gabrielle Foreman and Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, on racial indeterminacy ....
Corrections: For the Record
Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Legacy 24, No. 2 (2007) The caption to the photograph of Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins on page 278 was omitted. It should have read: Emma Hawkins photograph, original. Inscribed on verso, "Emma Dunham Kelley, Mrs. Benjamin Hawkins, author of 'Megda'"; photographer's imprint, P. H ....
"Married or Single?": Catharine Maria Sedgwick on Old Maids, Wives, and Marriage
Apr 01, 2008; Lubovich, Maglina ... [M]arried life is the destiny Heaven has allotted to us, and therefore best fitted to awaken all our powers, to exercise all our virtues, and call forth all our sympathies. (19) Catharine Maria Sedgwick, "Old Maids" (1834) As slaves must be trained for freedom, so women must be ...
Captivity, Freedom, and the New World Convent: The Spiritual Autobiography of Marie de l'Incarnation Guyart
Apr 01, 2008; Woidat, Caroline M ... [W]hat we accomplish in this new Church is seen by God and not by men; our enclosure covers all, and it is difficult to speak of what one does not see. Marie de l'Incarnation Guyart, Letter to her son, 9 Aug. 1668 (Word from New France 337) Working within convent walls in ...
"I put my fingers around my throat and squeezed it, to know how it feels": Antigallows Sentimentalism and E. D. E. N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand
Apr 01, 2008; Jones, Paul Christian ... Although it has gone unacknowledged in literary studies, it is quite likely that E. D. E. N. Southworth wrote more about the death penalty than any other American novelist in the nineteenth century. In many of her best-selling works, Southworth offers her readers plots that illustrate the ...
Orientalism and Sympathy in Maria Susanna Cummins's El Fureidîs
Apr 01, 2008; Hamelman, Steven ... The Lamplighter has long monopolized scholarship on Maria Susanna Cummins and her treatment of sympathy, despite the rich sympathetic texture of her other three novels: Mabel Vaughan has more than seventy references to sympathy; Haunted Hearts is saturated with allusions to "heart"; and El ...
Leaving the Good Mother: Frances E. W. Harper, Lydia Maria Child, and the Literary Politics of Reconstruction
Apr 01, 2008; Rutkowski, Alice ... African American activist and poet Frances E. W. Harper gained attention in the 1850s with her passionate antislavery poetry; the end of the war saw Harper publishing anew. But for a poet who carefully shaped responses to her work by unambiguously referencing current events, some of Harper's ...
LEGACY PROFILE: Introducing the Life and Work of Beatrix Farrand, Landscape Gardener and Writer (1872-1959)
Apr 01, 2008; Pearson, Carmen ... Within the broad realm of gardening literature produced by women, many examples of entertaining and informative texts exist. For instance, there are the vivid collections captured in the words of the women of belles-lettres, such as Celia Thaxter's An Island Garden and Katharine S. White's ...
Renovating The American Woman's Home: American Domesticity in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Apr 01, 2008; Jacobson, Kristin J ... While the popular ABC reality television program Extreme Makeover: Home Edition may initially strike us as thoroughly modern in its execution and technology, its rhetoric and ideology actually hold much in common with nineteenth-century domestic texts. For example, Extreme Makeover is ...
LEGACY PROFILE: Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907)
Apr 01, 2008; Yarington, Earl ... A few days after her death, an obituary in the Nation recorded the irony of Mary Jane Holmes's life and work: It is an eternal paradox of our world of letters that the books which enjoy the largest sale are barely recognized as existing by the guardians of literary tradition. Mrs. Mary ...
LEGACY REPRINT: Introduction to "Adam Floyd"
Apr 01, 2008; Westman, Lee Ann Elliott ... By the early 18905, Mary Jane Holmes was one of the most famous and financially successful American novelists of the nineteenth century. Consequently, she was invited to contribute to a collection of short stories by American women authors: The Woman's Story: As Told by Twenty American Women ....
Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic/Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
Apr 01, 2008; Robbins, Sarah ... Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic. By Mary Kelley. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. 294 pp. $39.95. Claiming the ...
Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature
Apr 01, 2008; Nelson, Robert K ... Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature. By Ivy Schweitzer. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 276 pp. $49.95/$.49.95 paper. In this intellectually intrepid study, Ivy Schweitzer explicates a long history of "friendship ...
Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle
Apr 01, 2008; Kete, Mary Louise ... Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle. By Eliza Richards. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 238 pp. $75.00. Eliza Richards's study, Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle, intervenes in three critical conversations concerning nineteenth-century ...
The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
Apr 01, 2008; Cox, James ... The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. Edited by Robert Dale Parker. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.292 pp. $34.95. The last fifteen years in American Indian literary studies have been an age of recovery. During ...
Roman Fever: Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing
Apr 01, 2008; Voeller, Carey R ... Roman Fever: Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing. By Annamaria Formichella Elsden. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2004.155 pp. $52.95/123.95 paper. Roman Fever: Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing ...
The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Apr 01, 2008; Kopcik, Corinne ... The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Stacey Margolis. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.235 pp. $74.95/$21.95 paper. In this exemplary work, Stacey Margolis critically redefines the boundaries of public and private life in nineteenth-century American ...
Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture
Apr 01, 2008; Stockton, Elizabeth ... Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture. By Jeannine Marie DeLombard. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.330 pp. $65.00/$24.95 paper. Recent scholarship by Laura Korobkin, Gregg Crane, and Stephen Best has established how thoroughly legal thought ...
Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present
Apr 01, 2008; Kent, Holly M ... Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present. Edited by Janet Badia and Jennifer Phegley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.297 pp. $60.00/$27.95 paper. In the introduction to their insightful collection of essays about shifting ...
Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919
Apr 01, 2008; Frost, Linda ... Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919. By Jane E. Simonsen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 266 pp. $59.95/$22.50 paper. Jane Simonsen's Making Home Work is the kind of project Amy Kaplan made possible with ...