In her own voice Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	Women Writers and the Assumption of Authority: The Atlantic Monthly, 1857-1898	3
	Conversation as Rhetoric in Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century	27
	"Thumping Against the Glittering Wall of Limitations": Lydia Maria Child's "Letters from New York"	41
	"We Must Be about Our Father's Business: Anna Julia Cooper and the In-Corporation of the Nineteenth-Century African-American Woman Intellectual	61
	"I Thought From the Way You Writ, That You Were a Great Six-Footer of a Woman": Gender and the Public Voice in Fanny Fern's Newspaper Essays	81
	Excising the Text, Exorcising the Author: Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes, in 1843	97
	Literary Cross-Dressing in Old New York: Ann Sophia Stephens as Jonathan Slick	113
	Gender and the Jeremiad: Gail Hamilton's Antisuffrage Prophecy	127
	The American Indian Story of Zitkala-Sa	141
	Contributors' Notes	157
	Index	159