Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies)

In This Volume, Fifteen Scholars From Diverse Backgrounds Analyze American Women Writers' Transatlantic Exchanges In The Nineteenth Century. They Show How Women Writers (and Often Their Publications) Traveled To Create Or Reinforce Professional Networks And Identities, To Escape Strictures On Women And African Americans, To Promote Reform, To Improve Their Health, To Understand The Workings Of Other Nations, And To Pursue Cultural And Aesthetic Education. Presenting New Material About Women Writers' Literary Friendships, Travels, Reception And Readership, And Influences, The Volume Offers New Frameworks For Thinking About Transatlantic Literary Studies.--pub. Desc. A Flight From Home: Negotiations Of Gender And Nationality In Frances Osgood's Early Career / Sarah Klotz -- Catharine Maria Sedgwick Tours England: Private Letters, Public Account / Lucinda L. Damon-bach -- Margaret Fuller's New-york Tribune Dispatches From Great Britain: Modern Geography And The Print Culture Of Reform / Brigitte Bailey -- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Starring As Benevolent Celebrity Traveler / Sarah Ruffing Robbins -- A Little Private Conversation ... In Her Boudoir: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Appearance At Stafford House In 1853: An Essay In Twelve Parts / Beth L. Lueck -- Reluctant Celebrity: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern, And The Transatlantic Embodiment Of Gender And Fame / Brenda R. Weber -- Freedom And Grace: Harriet Jacobs In England / Grace Mcentee -- Great Exhibitions: Ellen Craft On The British Abolitionist Stage / Kenneth Salzer -- A Summer In England: The Women's Rest Tour Association Of Boston And The Encouragement Of Independent Transatlantic Travel For American Women / Libby Bischof -- The Lost Lady In The World Of Comus: Catherine Maria Sedgwick And Margaret Fuller Read Milton / Jeffrey Steele -- Belonging, Longing, And The Exile State In Harriet Beecher Stowe And George Eliot / Rita Bode -- In Its English Dress: Reading Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World As A Transatlantic Religious Bestseller / Sharon Estes -- Emily Dickinson And Transatlantic Geology / Robin Peel -- American Jane Eyres: Louisa May Alcott's And Anna Katharine Green's Transatlantic Dialogues With Charlotte Bronte / Birgit Spengler -- The Sympathy Of Another Writer: The Correspondence Between Sarah Orne Jewett And Mrs. Humphry Ward / Jane Silvey. Edited By Beth L. Lueck, Brigitte Bailey, And Lucinda L. Damon-bach. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Title Page 6 Contents 10 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction | Transatlantic Studies and American Women Writers 14 Part I | Tourism, Celebrity, & Reform: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Transatlantic Travel 30 1 | A Flight from Home: Negotiations of Gender and Nationality in Frances Osgood’s Early Career 32 2 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick Tours England: Private Letters, Public Account 50 3 | Margaret Fuller’s "New-York Tribune" Dispatches from Great Britain: Modern Geography and the Print Culture of Reform 78 4 | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Starring as Benevolent Celebrity Traveler 100 5 | “A little private conversation . . . in her boudoir” (Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Appearance at Stafford House in 1853: An Essay in Twelve Parts) 118 6 | Reluctant Celebrity: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern, and the Transatlantic Embodiment of Gender and Fame 133 7 | Freedom and Grace: Harriet Jacobs in England 149 8 | Great Exhibitions: Ellen Craft on the British Abolitionist Stage 165 9 | A Summer in England: The Women’s Rest Tour Association of Boston and the Encouragement of Independent Transatlantic Travel for American Women 182 Part II | Authorship, Influence, & Reception: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Transatlantic Print Culture 202 10 | The Lost Lady in the World of "Comus": Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Margaret Fuller Read Milton 204 11 | Belonging, Longing, and the Exile State in Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Eliot 217 12 | “In Its English Dress”: Reading Susan Warner’s "The Wide, Wide World" as a Transatlantic Religious Bestseller 237 13 | Emily Dickinson and Transatlantic Geology 261 14 | American Jane Eyres: Louisa May Alcott’s and Anna Katharine Green’s Transatlantic Dialogues with Charlotte Brontë 284 15 | “The Sympathy of Another Writer”: The Correspondence between Sarah Orne Jewett and Mrs. Humphry Ward 308 Contributors 338 Publication Credits 342 Index 344