Women writers and the assumption of authority : the Atlantic monthly, 1857-1898 / Shirley Marchalonis -- Conversation as rhetoric in Margaret Fuller's Woman in the nineteenth century / Judith Mattson Bean -- "Thumping against the glittering wall of limitations" : Lydia Maria Child's "Letters from New York" / Stephanie A. Tingley -- "We must be about our father's business" : Anna Julia Cooper and the in-corporation of the nineteenth-century African-American woman intellectual / Elizabeth Alexander -- "I thought from the way you writ, that you were a great six-footer of a woman" : gender and the public voice in Fanny Fern's newspaper essays / Laura Laffrado -- Excising the text, exorcising the author : Margaret Fuller's Summer on the lakes, in 1843 / Dorothy Z. Baker -- Literary cross-dressing in old New York : Ann Sophia Stephens as Jonathan Slick / Beatrice Jacobson -- Gender and the jeremiad : Gail Hamilton's antisuffrage prophecy / Sherry Lee Linkon -- American Indian story of Zitkala-Sa / Margaret A. Lukens.