Table Of Contents:
Plan of the Series xv
Introduction xvii

Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) 3(10)

Christopher L. Nesmith

William Andrus Alcott (1798-1859) 13(6)

Larry A. Carlson

William Apess (1798-1839) 19(6)

Michael Berthold

Delia Bacon (1811-1859) 25(6)

Beverly G. Merrick

George Bancroft (1800-1891) 31(14)

Anne Zanzucchi

Catharine Beecher (1800-1878) 45(7)

Barbara Downs Wojtusik

Charles Timothy Brooks (1813-1883) 52(5)

Roger Thompson

Orestes A. Brownson (1803-1876) 57(12)

James Emmett Ryan

William Henry Channing (1810-1884) 69(9)

Sandra Harbert Petrulionis

Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) 78(11)

Deborah P. Clifford

Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892) 89(7)

Mathew David Fisher

Orville Dewey (1794-1882) 96(7)

Susan L. Roberson

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) 103(25)

Sarah Ann Wider

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) 128(15)

Patricia Dunlavy Valenti

Octavius Brooks Frothingham (1822-1895) 143(13)

Nancy Craig Simmons

Samuel Griswold Goodrich (Peter Parley) (1793-1860) 156(8)

Larry R. Long

John B. Gough (1817-1886) 164(6)

John W. Crowley

Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879) 170(8)

Patricia Okker

Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-1888) 178(9)

Patricia Dunlavy Valenti

Frederic Henry Hedge (1805-1890) 187(9)

Guy R. Woodall

Abby Maria Hemenway (1828-1890) 196(5)

Deborah P. Clifford

Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) 201(18)

Judy Logan

Samuel Johnson (1822-1882) 219(6)

Alan D. Brasher

Sylvester Judd (1813-1853) 225(8)

Richard D. Hathaway

Lucy Larcom (1824-1893) 233(7)

Beverly G. Merrick

George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) 240(9)

Ralph H. Orth

Donald Grant Mitchell (1822-1908) 249(7)

Brett Coker

John Neal (1793-1876) 256(9)

Karen A. Weyler

Mary Gove Nichols (1810-1884) 265(8)

Arthur Wrobel

Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806-1893) 273(7)

Susan Belasco

Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867) 280(8)

Kathleen Healey

Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865) 288(8)

Barbara Downs Wojtusik

Seba Smith (1792-1868) 296(7)

Cameron C. Nickels

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) 303(16)

Barbara Ryan

Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) 319(9)

Robert Bray

Jones Very (1813-1880) 328(7)

David M. Robinson

Noah Webster (1758-1843) 335(11)

D'Ann Pletcher George

John Weiss (1818-1879) 346(7)

Robert N. Hudspeth

Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878) 353(7)

John E. Reilly

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) 360(11)

Albert J. von Frank

Harriet E. Wilson (1827/1828?-1863?) 371(6)

Andrew Smith
Checklist of Further Readings 377(18)
Contributors 395(4)
Cumulative Index 399