Features
“Learning to Read American Women Writers” – Patricia Okker
Essays
“‘But O, my Tongue doth Fatler'”: Forms of Resemblance in Martha Wadworth Brewster’s Scriptural Paraphrases” – Nicholas K. Mohlmann
“‘Undisputed Dignity’: Anna Julia Cooper, Black Publishing, and Late-Twentieth-Century Discourses of Dignity” – Sabrina Evans
Special Forum: Celebrating F. E. Watkins Harper
“Introduction: Remembering Frances Ellen Watkins Harper” – Eric Gardner
“Catalysts for Justice: The Enduring Prescience and Relevance of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper to Our World” – Lois Brown
“We Need to Speak about Home: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Domestic Concerns” – Kristin Moriah
“On the Threshold of a New Era”: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper in Iowa – Leslie A. Schwalm
“Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Library Card” – Nazera Sadiq Wright
“Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Ethics of Personal Rest and National Restoration” – Barbara Mccaskill
“Generational Harper” – Brigitte Fielder
Special forum: 150 years of Louisa May Alcott’s Work
“Introduction” – Max L. Chapnick, Eagan Dean
“With Hands Outstretched: Louisa May Alcott and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper on the Relationship of Work and Care” – Madeline Zehnder
“Women in the Work(s): Race and Minorness in Louisa May Alcott’s Work and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Gates Ajar” – Holly Wiegand
“‘Verify Your Credentials’: Women Transcendentalists on Bridging the Gender Gap” – Alice De Galzain
“‘To Act as Interpreter’: Organizing Labor(s) in the Ladies’ Christian Union” – Alice Martin
“‘We advised them to kiss—not strike’: Mill Girls, White Femininity, and the Threat of Women’s Labor Organizing” – Kassie Baron
“The Freakishness of Racialized Labor in Onoto Watanna’s ‘The Loves of Sakura Jiro and the Three Headed Maid'” – Jean Lee Cole
Reviews
The Greatest Trials I Ever Had: The Civil War Letters of Margaret and Thomas Cahill ed. by Ryan W. Keating, and: When Slavery and Rebellion Are Destroyed: A Michigan Woman’s Civil War Journal ed. by Jack Dempsey, and: Seen/Unseen: Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved Georgians ed. by Christopher R. Lawton, Laura E. Nelson, and Randy L. Reid (review) – Christopher Hager
The Emily Dickinson Museum Collection: Emily Dickinson Museum: www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/museum-collection/ – Páraic Finnerty
Handwriting in Early America: A Media History ed. by Mark Alan Mattes (review) – Theresa Strouth Gaul
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of “The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Gregg Hecimovich (review) – Courtney Murray
New Perspectives on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Reading with and against the Grain ed. by Stephanie Palmer, Myrto Drizou, and Cécile Roudeau (review) – Valerie Kinsey