Volume 34, No. 2 2017
Editor’s Note
Susan Tomlinson, University of Massachusetts Boston
Essays
Hidden in Plain Sight: Uncovering the Career of Lucretia Howe Newman Coleman
Jennifer Harris, University of Waterloo
Word Become Flesh: Literacy, Anti-Literacy, and Illiteracy in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Faye Halpern, University of Calgary
States of Innocence: Harriet Beecher Stowe, London Needlewomen and the New England Novel
Gretchen Murphy, University of Texas at Austin
Creating a “Democratic Neighborhood” Through Poetic Exchange: Lucy Larcom’s An Idyl of Work
Robin Rudy Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Profiles
The Girl Reporter in Fact and Fiction: Miriam Michelson’s New Women and Periodical Culture in the Progressive Era
Lori Harrison-Kahan, Boston College, and Karen Skinazi, University of Birmingham
The Milpitas Maiden: A Story of Some Women’s Rights and Others Sufferance
Miriam Michelson
The Real New Woman: Miriam Michelson Likens Her to a Pleasant Dream, Not a Nightmare
Miriam Michelson
The Bildung of a Reformer: Mary Livermore’s Poetic Involvement in the Anti-Gallows Campaign of the 1840s
Birte Christ, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Orrin de Wolf
Mary Livermore
The Conqueror and the Murderer
Mary Livermore
Reviews
Consuming Dickinson
Alexandra Socarides, University of Missouri
Memorable Days: The Emilie Davis Diaries, by Judith Giesberg
Desiree Henderson, University of Texas Arlington
Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World, by Jessica DeSpain et. al.
Brenda Glascott, CSU San Bernardino
Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism, by Bryce Traister
Ashley Reed, Virginia Tech
Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863-1870, by Daneen Wardrop
Thomas Lawrence Long, University of Connecticut
Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism, by J. Samaine Lockwood
Travis M. Foster, Villanova University
Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism, and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton, by Mary Chapman
Hsuan L. Hsu, University of California at Davis
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 