"Best loved" ... and besieged : Maria Louise Sanford, 1836-1920 / Geraldine Joncich Clifford -- For the "Women of the university" : Marion Talbot, 1858-1948 / Ellen Fitzpatrick -- Independent and feminine life : Grace Raymond Hebard, 1861-1936 / Virginia Scharff -- Making of a "Misfit" : Clelia Duel Mosher, 1863-1940 / Elizabeth Griego -- Lonely heart : Maude E. Abbott, 1869-1940 / Margaret Gillett -- Practical in her theories : Theresa McMahon, 1878-1961 / Florence Howe -- Brickbats and roses : Lucy Diggs Slowe, 1883-1937 / Karen Anderson.