Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers

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Articles in January 2000 issue of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers

• Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery.(Review) (book review)
  by Dore, Florence W.
• "I commend you to Allegany underbrush": The Subversive Place-made Self in Elizabeth C. Wright's Treatise on Nature, Lichen Tufts.(Critical Essay)
  by PATTERSON, DANIEL
• To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells.(Review) (book review)
  by Engelhardt, Elizabeth S. D.
• The "Squaw's" Tale Sympathy and Storytelling in Mary Eastman's Dahcotah.(Critical Essay)
  by BELLIN, JOSHUA DAVID
• Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves and the Market in Women.(Review) (book review)
  by Birnbaum, Michele
• The Tenth Muses Lately Sprung up in the Americas: The Borders of the Female Subject in Sor Juana's First Dream and Anne Bradstreet's "Contemplations".(Critical Essay)
  by SHIMEK, SUZANNE
• Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writings.(Review) (book review)
  by Brown, Lois
• Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation & Secret Journeys: The Trope of Women's Travel in American Literature.(Review) (book review)
  by Logan, Lisa M.
• Dolly Franklin's Decision: Or How a Boston Girl Brought Sun-shine Into a Home Life.(Short Story)
  by Jewett, Sarah O.
• "Dolly Franklin's Decision": Sarah Orne Jewett's Definition of "A Good Girl".(Critical Essay)
  by JOHANNINGSMEIER, CHARLES
• Letters from Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Ward) to S. Weir Mitchell, M.D., 1884-1897.
  by TUTTLE, JENNIFER S.
• Empty Lots/Lost Canons: The Case of Yale's "Lady of the Night".(Yale University, the life of women writer Lillie Devereux Blake)
  by FARRELL, GRACE
• To Our Readers.(Review)
• "Something Coarse and Concealed": Female Sexuality in Willa Cather's A Lost Lady.(Critical Essay)
  by BOWER, STEPHANIE
• New Essays on My Antonia & Willa Cather: Queering America.(Review) (book review)
  by Stout, Janis P.
• "A group of people at my disposal": Humor in the Works of Kate Chopin.(Critical Essay)
  by WALKER, NANCY