"The Morgesons" and Other Writings, Published and Unpublished

"Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice . . . that ought to gain a more sympathetic and perceptive hearing in our time than in her own."—from the Introduction

The centerpiece of this volume is The Morgesons (1862), one of the few outstanding feminist bildungsromanae of that century. Additional selections include arresting short stories and provocative journalistic essays/reviews, plus a number of letters and manuscript journals that have never before been published. The texts are fully edited and documented.

"Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice . . . that ought to gain a more sympathetic and perceptive hearing in our time than in her own."—from the Introduction

The centerpiece of this volume is The Morgesons (1862), one of the few outstanding feminist bildungsromanae of that century. Additional selections include arresting short stories and provocative journalistic essays/reviews, plus a number of letters and manuscript journals that have never before been published. The texts are fully edited and documented.

Preface and Acknowledgments
Biographical and Critical Introduction
A Guide to Writings by and About Elizabeth Stoddard
Chronology

The Morgesons
—Introduction
—Text
—1901 Preface
Short Fiction
—Introduction
—Lemorne versus Huell
—Collected by a Valetudinarian
Early Journalism
—Introduction
—From "Our Lady Correspondent"'s Column, Daily Alta California
—Manuscripts
—Letters to Edmund Clarence Stedman
—Letters to a Younger Literary Friend
—Journal, 1866

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