19 Visions of a Reconstructed America: The Freedmen s Book and A Romance of the Republic

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface and Acknowledgments xi
5. Chronology of Lydia Maria Child xix
6. Abbreviations xxvi
7. Prologue: A Passion for Books 1
8. 1 The Author of Hobomok 16
9. 2 Rebels and "Rivals": Self Portraits of a Conflicted Young Artist 38
10. 3 The Juvenile Miscellany: The Creation of an American Children's Literature 57
11. 4 A Marriage of True Minds: Espousing the Indian Cause 80
12. 5 Blighted Prospects: Indian Fiction and Domestic Reality 101
13. 6 The Frugal Housewife: Financial Worries and Domestic Advice 126
14. 7 Children's Literature and Antislavery: Conservative Medium, Radical Message 151
15. 8 "The First Woman in the Republic" An Antislavery Baptism 173
16. 9 An Antislavery Marriage: Careers at Cross-Purposes 195
17. 10 The Condition of Women: Double Binds, Unresolved Conflicts 214
18. 11 Schisms, Personal and Political 249
19. 12 The National Anti-Slavery Standard: Family Newspaper or Factional Organ? 267
20. 13 Letters from New York: The'Invention of a New Literary Genre 295
21. 14 Sexuality and Marriage in Fact and Fiction 320
22. 15 The Progress of Religious Ideas: A "Pilgrimage of Penance" 356
23. 16 Autumnal Leaves: Reconsecrated Partnerships, Personal and Political 384
24. 17 The Example of John Brown 416
25. 18 Child's Civil War 443
26. 19 Visions of a Reconstructed America: The Freedmen s Book and A Romance of the Republic 487
27. 20 A Radical Old Age 532
28. 21 Aspirations of the World 573
29. Afterword 608
30. Notes 617
31. Works of Lydia Maria Child 757
32. Index 773