Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-253) and index.
Contents
Print and women's scientific affiliations -- Almira Phelps and the discipline of botany -- Sarah Hale and the circulation of science -- Catharine Esther Beecher and the sciences of home -- Susan Fenimore Cooper and ladies' science -- Elizabeth Cary Agassiz and heroic science -- Testing scientific limits : Emma Willard and Maria Mitchell -- Emily Dickinson and scientific skepticism -- The sciences in women's novels -- Women of letters and medical science -- Spiritual science.
