Table of Contents:
  • "Without any resort to Amazonian conventions" : women, writing, representation
  • "A more masculine courage" : women's voice and the nineteenth-century publication of Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal
  • "Everything by turns and nothing long" : configurations of female selfhood in Fanny Fern's early periodical writing
  • "How could you leave me alone when the room was full of men!" : gender and self-representation in Louisa May Alcott's Hospital sketches
  • "I am other than my appearance indicates" : sex-gender representation in women's nineteenth-century Civil War reminiscences
  • "I found it hard to preserve my self-control" : race, women, representation.